Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates. Rebellious Heartby Jody Hedlund is a book you will not want to put down until the end. This is a fast-paced story told with historical accuracy and sympathy for the difficulties and trials faced by the early citizens of what would become the United States of America.
Jack steps in to help, and the result is almost disastrous. This is, of course, against the law and could cost her her freedom. Just not yet! Then she discovers a badly beaten indentured servant girl and promises to help her escape her master’s cruelty. However, Susanna isn’t as interested in marrying as she is in improving her mind by studying and reading, though she knows that she will have to marry someday. Susanna is the daughter of a minister, but her mother has plans to marry her into a wealthy family. He is poor, as Harvard was expensive, but now he has the opportunity to earn a prestigious reputation. Jack has just completed his studies to become a lawyer. Extreme taxes, oppressive military presence, and increasingly high prices for British made goods, which are all that are allowed to be sold in the colonies, have the citizens of the colony desperate for a change. Isn’t that going against the way that God tells us to act? Jack sees the injustice of the increasingly harsh English rule.
Susanna cannot see why anyone would want to break loose from England. The year is 1763 the people are torn between wanting their freedom to form their own country or continuing under the harsh rule of England. Whether it is riding through an ice storm on the back of a horse, or hiding an escaped indentured servant, Jody Hedlund provides the reader with plenty of action. Well, it succeeds! There is never a dull moment. Rebellious Heartadvertises itself to provide romance and drama. 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.
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. A poor country lawyer, he doesn’t see how he’ll be able to fulfill his promise to make his father proud of him. And she knows when she marries well, she will be able to continue her work with the less fortunate.īen Ross grew up a farmer’s son and has nothing to his name but his Harvard education. She’s determined to put her status to good use, reaching out to the poor and deprived. In 1763 Massachusetts, Susanna Smith has grown up with everything she’s ever wanted, except one thing: an education.īecause she’s a female, higher learning has been closed to her, but her quick mind and quicker tongue never back down from a challenge.
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