LaVyrle SpencerRomance · Fiction·b. 1943
The Endearment
Synopsis
Anna Reardon, a spirited woman from 19th-century Boston, fabricates her past to escape a life of poverty and become Karl Lindstrom's mail-order bride in the untamed Minnesota wilderness. Though Karl forgives her initial deceptions, Anna harbors a deeper, more shameful secret that threatens to shatter the love she has come to cherish. She must decide if revealing the truth is worth risking everything.
How it reads
Prose complexity 4/10