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Virginia's Vocation Kindle Edition

by Zina Abbott (Author), Sweet Americana (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
Will Virginia’s chosen vocation fill the empty spaces in her heart?

It is 1858. With both parents dead, Virginia Atwell lives with her older brother, Jefferson, and his family in Boonville, Missouri. Under a pseudonym, she secretly has been submitting articles to a well-respected investigative journal about controversial topics. To her dismay, she learns her family plans to buy new farmland in the wilds of central Kansas Territory, making it almost impossible for her to continue her clandestine article submissions. More importantly, Virginia is terrified of the prospect of living so close to hostile Indian tribes and dying by their hands because they resent white Americans moving onto their traditional buffalo hunting grounds.

Virginia’s brother, Jefferson, learns of her writings and decides it is time to get her out of Missouri. He yields to her persuasion and escorts her to Ohio so she may attend one of the few colleges in country that accept female students. There, she meets Avery Wilson, an aspiring writer, a teacher of two of her classes, and a fellow boarder at Drusilla Chilton’s boarding house. In spite of his impeccable politeness, Virginia cannot help but believe he disapproves of her.

Virginia’s publisher orders her to his office to discuss a special assignment. She must make a trip to St. Louis, but her landlady insists she cannot travel alone. Avery, curious about Virginia’s secretive meeting, and unable to resist his growing attraction to the irritating, but brilliant student, offers to pose as her fiancé in order to escort her. While he is in St. Louis, he hopes to visit the Heartland Monthly offices to increase his chances the publisher will start accepting his submissions.

What happens when the publisher is not the only one shocked and dismayed to learn that the investigative journal’s star writer is a woman? Will Avery keep her secret? What about the assignment to visit the Kaw Reservation? Who will go to investigate and write the article? What will happen when the two return to Ohio?

Virginia’s Vocation is also part of the author’s Atwell Kin series:
Book 1 - Charlie’s Choice (Atwell Kin Prequel)
Book 2 - Virginia’s Vocation - (also Lockets & Lace multi-author series)
Book 3 - Kizzie’s Kisses - (also Grandma's Wedding Quilts multi-author series)
Book 4 - Otto’s Offer - (also Lockets & Lace multi-author series)
Book 5 - Hannah’s Handkerchief - (also Lockets & Lace multi-author series)
Book 6 – Hannah's Highest Regard
Only Charlie's Choice is a Native American romance. However, Charlie plays a minor role in each Atwell Kin book, which features white Americans who settled on the Kansas frontier.
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  4. Publication date
    April 12, 2019
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07P8LTXDL
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 12, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2.0 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 204 pages
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Zina Abbott

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ZINA ABBOTT is the pen name used by Robyn Echols for her historical novels.

Except for the first year of her life, Robyn has lived in California. She started her young life in San Diego and has had gradually moved northward. She has been writing since she was in junior high school.

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The author currently lives with her husband in California near the “Gateway to Yosemite.” She is a member of Women Writing the West, American Night Writers Association, and Modesto Writers Meet Up. She currently lives with her husband in California near the “Gateway to Yosemite.” She enjoys any kind of history including family history. When she is not piecing together novel plots, she pieces together quilt blocks.

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  • Cinderella 7
    5.0 out of 5 stars Virginia a Writer?
    Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2019
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    Virginia was a modern thinking woman who hated
    others to tell her what she could or couldn't do, and
    was sure to tell anyone so!

    She went West with her brothers to help them get
    their land set up, but she made it clear to her oldest
    brother she was going to go back east in order to go
    to college.

    Wait until you see what awaits her at this collage! She
    Will definitely learn a thing or two, not just about
    academics but about herself also.

    I suggest that you do yourself a huge favor and get
    this outstanding book! I encourage you to do so
    because I highly recommend it! Enjoy!
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  • Texas mom
    5.0 out of 5 stars Avery and Virginia
    Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2019
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    This is the last of the Lockets and Lace series. Each of the authors did a wonderful job and are to be applauded. This story is about a woman that wanted to live beyond her time. She did not wanted to always belong to a father, brother/ guardian or husband. She wanted to be herself and be solely responsible for herself. She finally meets her match, although it takes a while for them both to realize it. You will enjoy this story a great deal as I did.
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  • Marilynn M.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable, wholesome western romance.
    Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2019
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    This story is a western--not about cowboys and indians--about women's rights and indians. I look forward to reading more by this author, having enjoyed this story so.
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  • Kris
    5.0 out of 5 stars Virginia’s independence
    Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2019
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    Back in the late 1800’s when women had no control over their own lives, women were forced not to have their own legal freedom. Men considered their due in that matter to protect them. Virginia was set out to be independent and to be a great writer that was unheard of in this time period. Then to interview the Kaw Indian tribe which was never heard of for a young white women. A must read to understand what women and Indians had to go through in this time period sad but true. A must read! Thanks Zina
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  • Yvonne Butler
    5.0 out of 5 stars Virginia Goes To College
    Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2019
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    Virginia and her brother's family moved West near the Kaw Indian Reservation. This was both of her brother's dream to buy land for farming. This was not Virginia 's dream for her life. She
    wanted to go to college and had picked Oberlin College and even worked out a way to pay for it; but told only her brother, Jefferson. I loved this book.
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  • joy mansion
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brave woman
    Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2020
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    She knew she was different .She was out spoken from others.Her head strong brother was her guardian . He be live women were to obey the husband and sisters too. Read to find out what Virgania does.
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  • GH
    4.0 out of 5 stars Virginia 's Vocation (Lockets and Lace Book 19)
    Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2020
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    This is the nineteenth book in this series about a young woman with a vocation of being a writer and retrieving her mother's locket she had sold
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  • D. Cozzone
    5.0 out of 5 stars Historically Accurate and Enjoyably Presented
    Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2021
    Miss Abbott has done it again. This is a well researched, superbly crafted story centered around the injustices women and Native Americans sufered in the 1850's. Virginia, a forward thinking woman who desires the same recognition as her male counterparts, does two unmentionable things. She attends college, not a finishing school, and writes articles for a journal using a male alias. Attending Oberlin, she moves into a boarding house where she encounters a stuffy professor who abhors females in his collegiate classes. Unfortuantely, she is enrolled in two of his classes. Through a series of surprises, twists, turns, and the schemes of a nosy landlord, the two embark on a journey so she can writing an article about the injustices of the Kansa Indians. Will their different points of view prevent friendship or even romance? A must read.
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