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Book Review of LaVyrle Spencer : Three Complete Novels : Morning Glory / Vows / The Gamble (3 Novels in 1 Volume)

LaVyrle Spencer : Three Complete Novels : Morning Glory / Vows / The Gamble (3 Novels in 1 Volume)
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Three books in one. Stories are: Morning Glory -- Vows -- and The Gamble.

In Morning Glory, Elly Dinsmore is a young widow with two young sons and a third child on the way, struggling to manage a farm on her own. Will Parker is a lonely, lanky drifter who roams into town with the clothes on his back as his only possessions.

In Vows, Strong-willed and saucy, tomboyish Emily Walcott has always had big dreams. Stubbornly defying the mores of turn of the century society, she dresses like a man and works in her father's livery stables while studying veterinary medicine by correspondence.

In The Gamble, the spinster milliner of Proffitt, Kansas, Agatha Downing, is as prim as a Quaker bonnet, yet her fiery green eyes and fanciful hats tell more than her passionless demeanor.