Silent Melody / Mary Balogh 361 p.

Teenage Lady Emily Marlowe falls in love with Lord Ashley Kendrick.  He leaves for India where he marries, has a son and loses in family in a tragedy.  When he returns, he dances with her and becomes very aware of her.  Yet, his guilt over his loss keeps them apart as does her struggle to make her way in society as a deaf person.  Again, Mary Balogh tells a romance where characters have issues.