Мэри Бэлоу "Simply Love"

When Anne Jewell, a teacher at Miss Martin's School for Girls, meets Sydnam Butler, the Duke of Bewcastle's steward, one summer in Wales, it is a meeting between two lonely, wounded souls. Anne is a single mother in strict Regency England and Sydnam is severely maimed as a result of torture when he was spying for the British against the forces of Bonaparte. They strike up a friendship and then something more--but neither of them believes they are lovable and so they go their separate ways at the end of the summer. Only an unforeseen fate brings them together again and sets them on the path to mutual healing and love.