When an unexpected suitor comes to claim Virginia Rose Cooper for his wife, she gives him a definite NO.
Still, she must consider her path forward in the tumultuous days after the American Revolution.
Her father is ill, and war damaged many in Morganton. Ginny bears the scars, too. Yet, heroes were born of the Revolution. John Sevier, Francis Asbury, and Andrew Jackson proved they could stand again despite the rubble.
Ginny, a dreamer and a storyteller, is not yet eighteen. Her family stands with her, and Grace McDowell is her ally. Still, what kind of building tools are words and imagination in the unknown world beyond Freedom Tavern? Are there horrors worse than war beyond her home?
There is no easy road to the future, and poor decisions could be life-shattering.
Step into eighteenth-century shoes as Virginia Rose Cooper finds the courage to fit happiness and love into a fulfilling future.









