It Happened One Night: A Letter to the Reader/The Fall of Rogue Gerrard/Spellbound/Only You Book

[Samuel Pellow and Wilma "Willie" Jepp grew up in a small village in Cornwall. They fell in love in their teens, but soon after he was captured by a press gang and forced to join the Navy. After her mother discovered Wilma was pregnant, she threw her out of her house and she took off with a painter whose muse she had become and ultimately ended up as a exclusive prostitute who married her latest protector, a Duke no less, with whom she had genuinely fallen in love. Sam and Wilhelmina, as she now calls herself, meet a few times over the years, but something always gets in the way. In the end, after both of them are widowed, they both meet at an inn were they finally become reacquainted. I really liked that both of them were more mature, that they dealt with their issues and moved on. I liked that both of them had their losses but didn't dwell too much on them. Other than the fact that the hero had the annoying habit of calling her "Willie" and "my girl" (which made him sound so... old...), I have absolutely no complaints about this one :) (hide spoiler)]