Phebe, Her Profession

“I ran away,” Mac Holden confesses, bundled in a horse-blanket to hide the dress beneath it—and Gifford Barrett has only just met the four-year-old who insists he is a boy.

In Helena, Montana, Gifford’s chance meetings with Mac bring a comic tangle of candy, mischief and Aunt Teddy, the novelist. But the story’s larger question belongs to Phebe McAlister, newly home after two years in Europe. She wants to study medicine and shape a life beyond the domestic future expected of her; family loyalties and the pull of old relationships make that choice anything but simple. With a lively eye for childhood absurdities and a tender regard for a young woman’s ambitions, Anna Chapin Ray sets Phebe at the edge of a bold new path. Will she have the courage to follow it?

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