To Boldly Love

* THE TRAIL TO WIBAUX, the sequel for To Boldly Love, is now on sale!* write a review! - reviews help future buyers decide.~ ~ ~ A coming-of-age 1880's Iowa romance- Mary Moody was in crisis, stifled by her father, crushed by homesickness, thrilled by independence, and faith to meet one good man to marry.- This is a heartwarming, 1880's, period love story. To Boldly Love, is based on an actual diary. For three years, twenty-one year old Mary Moody wrote her own story of her freedom and love living on the Iowa prairie. In May, 1881, she left home because of her abusive father. In her diary, she began jotting down her musings, and comings and goings. Through her wit, confidence, and determination she made her living creating lace and dressmaking.She was fiercely independent and would not yield that freedom to just anyone. She meets various young men, some nice, some not so nice, and one wonderful man. She scrutinized each man through her lens how he should look and act; her ideal "Mister Right".- One freezing night, at a Grange Hall dance, she met a man with an honest and warm heart. He did not completely fit her mental sketch of perfection. Yet, as she studied him, getting to know him better, he became her hero. At first, she was reluctant about being in love with him, even denying her own feelings.- Come and follow this young woman from young adult into womanhood - as Mary wrote so deftly in the final entry of her diary, "April 23, 1883: Farewell my girlhood! Farewell old days, and on to womanhood, my new life, and our new home."- Like the budding flower, she expands in every way until at last, she blooms forth a blushing maiden.(Facts for Ladies, 1890, page 177, Amy G. Ayer)- The story you are about to read is based on a diary written by Mary Ann Moody between May 1881 and April 1883. Mary was what we call today, coming of age. This is her story of independence, friendship, and love on the Iowa prairie.