Ann of the Wild Rose Inn, 1774

This is a great book. I read it in about two hrs and i could not put it done! It opened the door to other great historical romances like Time Enough For Drums by Ann Rinaldi which is a must read. One of the best things about this book is that it is unpredictable. You know that she is going to end up with her sweetheart. But you really can't see how everything will work out. Great Great Great. The author really knows what she is doing!

My sister was the one who got these books as a box set for her birthday, but I was the one who read the whole set back to front [this was the first box set which only included the first three books .... it was a while ago]. The Literature is about a grade six level, the stories closer to grade nine, but they DO give young women a first-person introduction to the major points of American History.The first two stories pretty much follow the same premise, though under different circumstances [call it variations on a theme] ... a young girl of the McBride family meets a fellow, falls for him, almost doesn't get him, gets herself caught up in a major point of American History [for Bridie the Witch Hysteria, for Ann the Revolution etc] and you'll have to read them to find out how they end. The third book gave a good introduction to the two sides of the Civil War and would be a good jumping off point for getting a girl to maybe move into something a little more grown up [I moved quite promptly into Gone With The Wind and went from there]. Very well written for their age level, with a crisp yet discriptive voice. They're hard to put down once you pick them up.So girls, instead of picking up a copy of your mother's Danielle Steel, pick up one of these books instead. And parents, if you want to give your daughter's a gift that she will both enjoy AND learn something from, please consider the Wild Rose Inn Series.

Ann of the Wild Rose Inn is a heartwarming story about finding true love and almost losing it. Roger is the british sailor Ann loved but couldn't have for the sake of her family. But in the end everything works out.

Ann MacKenzie lives in her family's inn in Marblehead, Massachusetts, just before the Revolutionary War. Ann and her twin brother, John, work at smuggling to defy the British, who are occupying Massachusetts. But Ann falls in love with a young British sailor. Will Ann be true to her country or her heart?