Desires of the Heart — Linda Laroque

Loren Fairchild longs for children, but is barren. At a cottage in Carlisle, UK, she puts her divorce behind her and begins a new life. In 1947 the former owner's wife disappeared. That same week, according to local gossip, her husband took up with a dark-headed harlot. One morning in 2007, a simple-minded woman appears at Loren's cottage and triggers events that change Loren's life forever.

Miles Chapeau misses the wife, the mother of his two children, he'd known before the war. When he returned from WWII in 1945, he learned she'd been hurt in an air raid and has the mind of a child. He loves her and would never forsake his duty, but misses the intimate side of marriage and a woman to share his life. One day she disappears and his existence is turned upside down.