Love at Last — Rosemary Laurey

Their engagement broken after a family scandal, Margaret and John are forced to part. She marries another man, and John is sent out to manage the family estates in Jamaica. Twenty years later, Margaret now a widow and John still single, they meet again by chance. Their feelings have not abated over the years. John wants them to marry, but Margaret hesitates. She has commitments and obligations, so John uses all his skills--in and out of bed--to persuade her that her future happiness lies with him. She agrees to marry him. They make plans for a quiet wedding but the protagonists of the old scandal intrude into the present. It takes all Margaret's efforts, and John's support, to finally make a break from the past and face a future together.