Morning Glory
LaVyrle Spencer
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· 77 ratings · 448 pages · Published: 03 Feb 2009
ELLY
In town, they called her "Crazy Widow Dinsmore." But Elly was no stranger to their ridicule--she had been an outsider all her life, growing up in a boarded-up old house under the strict eye of her eccentric grandparents. Now she was all alone, with two little boys to raise, and a third child on the way.
WILL
He drifted into Whitney, Georgia, one lazy afternoon in the summer of 1941, hoping to put his lonely past behind him. He yearned for the tenderness he had never known, the home he'd never had. All he needed was for someone to give him a chance.
Then he saw her classified ad: WANTED--A husband. When he stepped across Elly Dinsmore's cluttered yard, Will Parker knew he had come home at last ...
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- marriage of convenience 14
- tortured hero 13
- war 13
- plain heroine 13
- pregnancy 12
- slow burn 11
- historical 10
- 20th century 8
- western 7
- working class hero 7
- working class heroine 6
- tortured heroine 5
- small town 5
- sweet/gentle hero 5
- poor heroine 5
- single mother 5
- shy heroine 4
- independent heroine 4
- sweet/gentle heroine 4
- military 4
- angst 3
- friends to lovers 3
- take-charge heroine 3
- m-f romance 3
- suspense 2
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- slut shaming 5
- misogyny 1
- death / grief 1
- mental trauma 1
- past child abuse 1
- victim blaming 1