D A Gregory

Anne, the American Girl D A Gregory

The president of Flannery Industries, Charles Flannery has chosen Anne, a skinny unremarkable Chinese girl, as one of the first five workers brought back by him to San Francisco in 1930. It's a job opportunity few girls like her will have and Anne was determined to make something of it. In 1930 she's ten years old and Charles is thirty. He has a degree from Harvard and when Anne arrives in San Francisco, she has a small bag with everything she owns in it. It's easy for her to fall in love with everything this new country has to offer; she's soon in love with one extraordinary American and will come to love another. After Anne's eighteenth birthday, Charles proposes, knowing she's already in love with someone else and knowing that a potentially devastating world war is coming. There's no easy way for Anne to break the engagement news to her lover and best friend, but just like in the movies, love finds a way to make things right. Charles knows Anne was looking into two pairs of eyes when saying her wedding vows and accepts the unusual marriage arrangement.