Morning Glory
LaVyrle Spencer
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· 110 ratings · 448 pages · Published: 01 Jan 1989

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 ...
Tagged as:
- marriage of convenience 20
- tortured hero 19
- war 19
- plain heroine 18
- pregnancy 18
- historical 17
- slow burn 16
- 20th century 14
- working class hero 12
- working class heroine 11
- single mother 11
- shy heroine 10
- tortured heroine 10
- small town 10
- sweet/gentle hero 10
- poor heroine 10
- western 8
- independent heroine 8
- take-charge heroine 8
- m-f romance 8
- sweet/gentle heroine 7
- friends to lovers 7
- angst 6
- military 6
- cheerful/happy heroine 3
- forced proximity 2
- disabilities & scars 1
- boss & employee 1
- men in uniform 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- slut shaming 9
- mental trauma 5
- past child abuse 5
- death / grief 4
- victim blaming 2
- mental illness 1
- past child neglect 1
- past abuse 1
- geography
- georgia 5
- usa 5
- north america 3
- texas 1
- Format
- Audiobook
- third person pov 2