![]() ![]() It’s so refreshing to read a novel without stunningly beautiful main characters. They become friends first and developing attraction comes later. ![]() Here they must overcome the belief they share and learn that they are good enough and that they can love and be loved. Both of the main characters are very scarred, Sydnam on the outside and Anne on the inside from the rape which led to David. It’s not all passion and sex that’s fine sometimes, but when it comes to emotional intensity, this book completely astonished me. It’s not at all what I’d expect from a romance novel. Mary Balogh, please welcome yourself to my favorite authors list. Both Anne and Sydnam must heal and understand in order to embrace the feelings that they unexpectedly discover for each other. ![]() Now he is steward for his friend’s estate and dreams of buying a small property from him, believing that no woman will love him when children run in fear of his face. Sydnam Butler is a war veteran, missing an arm and an eye and scarred down half of his body. When Joshua, a cousin of her son’s father and a great help to her, offers to take David and Anne to Wales for a month of summer vacation, Anne can’t refuse for her son’s sake and hesitates when she is treated as a guest rather than as the servant she considers herself. She is beautiful, beloved by all of her friends, but has a son, David, by a man who was not her husband and is thus branded by society. Miss Anne Jewell is a teacher at Miss Martin’s School for Girls. ![]()
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