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Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers' Favorite
It is the Civil War year of 1863 in Ellenton, Georgia, and Mary Lou Bryant is engaged to childhood sweetheart Tristan Lawrence, now a West Point graduate and off fighting the war with the 50th Georgia. Mary Lou has had her own share of tragedy, losing her father and brothers in battle and her mother of a broken heart. When Mary Lou visits Tristan's mother and finds that he has been captured at Gettysburg and now is imprisoned at Point Lookout, Maryland, does she faint away or cry? Not our heroine, who grabs her brother's Confederate uniform, disguises herself and heads north to save Tristan. Along the way, Mary Lou is given a horse named Skye and a letter for a Sergeant Jebidiah Waters who is in the Army of North Virginia. Jebidiah is actually a Captain in the Union army who is posing as a Confederate spy. Worse yet, he and Mary Lou are attracted to each other. But is Tristan really dead and what happened to Jeb's wife Isabelle?
"Road to Home: Mary's Story" is a well-written historic fiction that covers in accurate detail the Civil War's traumatic effect on everyone living back then, both in the North and, as in this story, the South. Historic figures such as General Sherman are nicely mingled with Author Aimee Weed's characters. Mary Lou is an authentic character as she has dreams of her father's body being brought home for burial and also of the torture and hanging of their family servants. The subplot of revenge for the killing of a loved one is a strong one and totally believable. Readers' interest will remain strong throughout the entire story which portrays the complexity of that terrible time so very well.
