The long, winding road along their journey to acceptance and ultimate love is threatened by forces beyond their control, through new territory in the South Pacific with the war against Japan, circling back to a deception repeating the past. Forced together by necessity in order to survive, the two are grudging companions at first, then gradually open their hearts to one another. A lone drifter in the 1940s, attempting to put his past and greatest mistake behind him, resorts to the last job available to reprobates such as himself in yet another small town: as hired help to "crazy Elly", a young, reclusive widow with two young children and another on the way. I was riveted all the way through this charming and heart-wrenching story, drawn to return to the twists and bends of the story as a bee is to honey, completely mesmerized until the compelling conclusion.
Spencer's books, until I came across this jewel.
Her descriptive prose draws one into the worlds of her making, evoking emotions and images as if one were the main characters experiencing every event for oneself, whether male or female. LaVyrle Spencer is, in this humble professor's opinion, the most estimable of historical romance writers.
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