Beyond the West Sea (Stripling Warrior)

Miriam's determined to marry Lib--only they've never actually met. Lib lives a hundred miles away on the shore of the beautiful West Sea. He's busy building the largest ship on the coast. He doesn't know she exists, and he might be in love with someone else. Miriam's armed with determination, faith, and an unlikely talent for complicated mathematics. Her journey to find Lib ends in disastrous failure, but she might just be the missing factor in an equation Lib can't quite solve on his own.