Morning Glory by Lavyrle Spencer
It's LaVyrle Spencer's Morning Glory, a book about not much in particular\xa0except the deep meaning of the heart\xa0until there's a war and then a... murder framin'?\xa0 This book has no nonconsensual sex but it does have a lot of discussion of childhood trauma, the past-tense murder of a sex worker, and some seriously weird slut shaming and then murdering of another woman which is really tonally weird and we expected better of you, LaVyrle.
We read this book because Amazing Human Beverly Jenkins mentioned LaVyrle in a list she so graciously\xa0gave us of vintage romances she really liked back when we did our episode on\xa0Night Song.\xa0 In the future I won't wait that long to listen to the lady because this book is\xa0so good\xa0except when it makes\xa0such weird choices in the last act.