Dani Pettrey's Submerged has an exciting plot and the main character's struggle with God's complete forgiveness for her sin is heartwarming. The love story is sweet but not terribly sappy. The story's additional characters, while also appealing, do make for quite a lot for the reader to keep track of and detract to some extent from Bailey as the main character but they also lighten a story with quite a  bit of heavier material. All in all, I quite enjoyed this book and thought it an above average Christian fiction pick. The clever mystery especially makes the story more engaging and somewhat more complex and unusual.