The second of the series featuring the teachers at Miss Martin's School for Girls. Unwed mother Anne Jewel, crosses path with the aristocrat Sydnam Butler, war-scarred veteran, while on holiday with Bewcastle family clan at the estate where Sydnam is the steward. Both have secrets and deep seated pain. Sydnam, facially scarred and an amputee and Anne a victim of a rape. The two become friends and then lovers only to separate the day after. The Bewcastle family have matchmaking in mind. But the two go their separate ways. Anne returns to her teaching and her 9 yr. old son. Sydnam to his work. Both have such pain neither feels love is possible in their lives. Balogh portrays these two characters well as they move through their painful histories and wariness of personal relationships to romance.
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