My setting in “ZOLA’S
CROSS-COUNTRY ADVENTURE” in MISSAdventure Brides Collection is the
open road (where there were roads) and inside (and many times under) an early
automobile. In my novella takes place in 1904, a courageous young woman, Zola,
has taken up the challenge to prove women are as capable as men, and to prove
this, she sets out to drive an automobile from coast to coast. My newspaper reporter hero, Allen, has been
tasked with getting the story and is ordered to follow her.
When Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson made his
historic journey in 1903, there exited only 150 miles of paved roads in the
entire United States, most of those in large cities. What roads there were in
between cities were extremely primitive if they existed at all. There were no
road signs, no road numbers, no road maps, and no gas stations. In the first
decade of the 20th century, a driver had the option of bad roads or no roads at all.
Within a few years of Dr. Jackson’s trip, an organized movement began in the United States to improve the roads across the nation to accommodate this new fangled device—the automobile. Higher quality driving surfaces were needed as well as a structured system of roadways, updated maps, in general, better ways for people in cars to travel wherever they wished to go.
By 1913, the nation’s first transcontinental motor route, the Lincoln Highway, had been created coast to coast through the center of the country. And by 1915, an automobile had raced across it’s entire length in just fives days time. This never would have happened without adventurous people like Dr. Jackson to forge the open country side before roads existed.
Happy Adventuring!
Love Is One of Life’s Greatest Adventures
Seven daring damsels don’t let the norms of
their eras hold them back. Along the way these women attract the attention of
men who admire their bravery and determination, but will they let love grow out
of the adventures?
Releases December 1, 2018
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