In a Cream Packard

~ In A Cream Packard ~ is romantic historical fiction laced with nostalgia, automobiles, and music from the golden age of rock and roll. Maryanne Dahl, a 21 year old redhead from Appleton, Wisconsin and Alexander Throckmorton, a 26 year old Navy veteran from Detroit, Michigan are the main characters. This romantic adventure recounts a road trip taken in the late spring of 1954 traveling south on US Route 23, the fabled two-lane highway that runs from Mackinaw City, Michigan to Jacksonville, Florida. The journey starts when two people meet by chance in a roadside diner and ends after they confirm their love, endure misfortune, and unlock mystery. The sights, sounds, and elements of the way of life that drove America's love affair with the automobile and two-lane blacktop are presented as nostalgic romance. It is life before the Eisenhower Interstate System. The reader will go along on an adventurous ride heading south on the Hillbilly Highway. This is book #1 of the Throckmorton Family Novels. Like the other books, it can be enjoyed as a stand-alone story. There are family secrets and little mysteries in each tale that are revealed in the subsequent books. "In A Cream Packard" tells of the roadtrip romance that sets an ever-changing family story in motion.