Vows

We begin Vows just outside the territory of Wyoming in the year 1888. Vows is a sweet story peppered with the perfect amount of old west/new territory drama. Victorian decorum mixes with modern day sensibilities about love and intimacy. Emily Walcott, a feisty tomboy and fiercely loyal to her family is engaged to a family friend she has known since childhood. Charles Bliss followed her family from back east to Wyoming so not only is he a family friend, he is the epitome of home. However, the sparks don't fly when she is kissing Charles Bliss on the wild western plain (thanks, Natalie, for that phrase). Still she knows he is a good man and her family has loved him forever. Enter Thomas Jeffcoat, a stranger in town. Newly arrived, he is show more the antithesis of Charles. Rough around the edges, a threat to her family's business, and not afraid to speak his mind. Tom Jeffcoat knows how to make sparks catch fire when it comes to Emily Walcott. And there are sparks from the very beginning of their acquaintance. Who will Emily chose for her beau? Safe and familiar Charles or wild and unpredictable Tom?
As an aside, even though Spencer bucked the stereotypical bodice ripper cover, she kept the cliché of one character vehemently hating another while the attraction silently simmered. Love/hate relationships are the perfect vehicle for smoldering passions. show less

Vows by Lavyrle Spencer
Publisher: Jove Books
Year: 1988
ISBN: 0515094773
Pages: 433
Reviewed by: Tina H; Arkansas, USA
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date: 12/7/2019

Emily Walcott is unintentionally engaged to Charles Bliss, a carpenter whom Emily has known her entire life, but she doesn't feel any spark in her heart when they share a kiss. It's entirely too much like kissing her brother!

Tom Jeffcoat has newly arrived in Sheridan Wyoming. He mistakes Emily for a Tomboy, as she is working at her father's livery. That definitely sets off sparks.

Tom is a horseshoer and he also wants to open his own livery in Sheridan. The land that he purchases is right across the street from the competition, Walcott's Livery. Emily decides she hates him. Tom becomes a show more great friend of Charles' almost immediately.

Even though Emily and Tom try very hard, they end up falling in love and are very much saddened for the hearts and friendships they will break, once they confess their love.

A great story, I've had it for many years, read many times; just adding book reviews to all of my books. show less

A historical romance that had characters in situations that could really have happened with people having emotions that seemed real.

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Emily Walcott es una joven temperamental y con una ferréa voluntad, como una hija obediente ha decidido aceptar el futuro que sus padres le han elegido. La vida en Sheridan transcurre plácida, Emily pasa los días entre la herrería de su padre y los libros de veterinaria, carrera a la que dedica toda su pasión. Charles, su amigo de infancia y futuro esposo no despierta en ella más que un sentimiento fraternal, en cambio Tom un joven emprendedor que llega a la población para instalar una herrería, convirtiendose asi en competidor de su padre, despierta en ella sentimientos contrapuestos. Ambos librarán una feroz batalla, en la que la pasión se convertirá en un abismo tan insondable como sus propios sentimientos.