Simply Love (Simply Quartet #2)
Mary Balogh
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· Steam/Spice level: 3 of 5
Open door [?]
· 79 ratings · 448 pages · Published: 27 Feb 2007

Anne first spied him in the deepening dusk of a Wales evening --- a lone figure of breathtaking strength, his handsome face branded by a secret pain. For teacher and single mother Anne Jewell, Sydnam Butler is a man whose sorrows --- and passions --- run deeper than she could have ever imagined. As steward of a remote seaside manor, Sydnam lives a reclusive existence. Yet he senses in Anne a kindred soul, and between these two wary hearts, desire stirs. Unable to resist the passion that has rescued them both, Anne and Sydnam share an afternoon of exquisite lovemaking. As scandal looms, suddenly the unwed mother and the war-scarred veteran must make a decision that could forever alter their lives ...
Tagged as:
- tortured hero 12
- disabilities & scars 12
- historical 11
- pregnancy 11
- regency 10
- military 10
- single mother 9
- tortured heroine 7
- slow burn 6
- friends to lovers 6
- m-f romance 6
- secret child 5
- sweet/gentle heroine 5
- working class heroine 5
- class difference 5
- shy hero 5
- men in uniform 4
- shy heroine 4
- marriage of convenience 4
- hurt/comfort 3
- teacher/coach heroine 3
- sweet/gentle hero 3
- rich hero 3
- poor heroine 2
- dual pov 2
- take-charge heroine 1
- third person pov 1
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- content warnings
- rape 8
- torture of mcs 4
- victim blaming 3
- mental trauma 3
- ableism 1
- geography
- england 4
- wales 4
- united kingdom 3
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The 'Simply Quartet' series
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super rich hero · regency · historical · class difference · england · open-door · m-f · poor heroine · teacher-heroine · independent heroine · sweet-hero · third-person-pov · length-long · friends to lovers · hurt-comfort · secret-relationship · united-kingdom · angst · dual-pov · sunny hero
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