In 1763 Massachusetts, Susanna Smith has grown up with everything she's
ever wanted, except one thing: an education. Because she's a female,
higher learning has been closed to her, but her quick mind and quicker
tongue never back down from a challenge. She's determined to put her
status to good use, reaching out to the poor and deprived. And she knows
when she marries well, she will be able to continue her work with the
less fortunate.
Ben Ross grew up a farmer's son and has
nothing to his name but his Harvard education. A poor country lawyer, he
doesn't see how he'll be able to fulfill his promise to make his father
proud of him. When family friends introduce him to the Smith family,
he's drawn to quick-witted Susanna but knows her family expects her to
marry well. When Susanna's decision to help an innocent woman no matter
the cost crosses with Ben's growing disillusionment with their British
rulers, the two find themselves bound together in what quickly becomes a
very dangerous fight for justice.
At first glance, this book followed the plot of wealthy ladies and a poor country boy. But when you meet Susanna and her thoughts of compassion, readers are drawn to admire her kindness and her view to do right.
I really admired the character of Susanna, in which she tries to do right by her servants in her own home and reaching out to save someone else who have been wrongfully accused and wronged.
I can't really say too much more, or else I might give away the suspense of the book.
If you want to read it, you will have to wait until Sept. 15th because that is when it is published. But if you're like me, and you like reading books that haven't even been published to the public yet, join the program at:
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Quotes to Live By
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
(John Quincy Adams)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. (Aristotle)
Every artist was first an amateur. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. (Thomas Jefferson)
It takes ten years to build up a reputation, but only five minutes to ruin one. (Anonymous)
(John Quincy Adams)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. (Aristotle)
Every artist was first an amateur. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. (Thomas Jefferson)
It takes ten years to build up a reputation, but only five minutes to ruin one. (Anonymous)
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