Grant’s Wish

“A Delightful Tale” Grant’s Wish is a delightful tale of a very old and historic hotel that’s fallen on hard times and is rundown. The 150- year-old Silver Swan Inn once boasted famous names as overnight guests such as authors, U. S. Presidents and noted military leaders like U.S. Grant who stayed there occasionally during the Civil War Years. Lee Nieman, manager of a posh Atlanta hotel has been demoted for engaging in local politics and exiled to Plaindale, Indiana, where the Swan, the hotel chain’s least profitable property, is located. His job is to ready the hotel to be sold or torn down. Dispirited initially, he grows to cherish the hotel’s charms and its rich history and wants to buy and restore it. But there are obstacles, a down payment he can’t afford, the haughty rich great-granddaughter of the Swan’s founder and a 95-year-old Indian whose tribe has a legendary grudge against the hotel, The story, sprinkled with history, reads almost like a mystery with surprising turns of events all keeping the reader turning pages.