Not Quite a Husband by Sherry Thomas
Leo and Bryony got married, he a handsome promising academe young man she a brilliant lady surgeon going against the grain of gently bred women, and got annulled in less than a year. Escaping England, Bryony sailed far away and ended in India as a traveling physician. Now, Leo sought her out to escort her safely back to England at the urgent request of her sister. With the past hovering between them and all the things left unsaid, what things lie on their journey back? Achingly bittersweet and full of luminous prose, this is the first book I have read of Sherry Thomas. It is a story of second chances in love, of trust and forgiveness, with unforgettable characters. The book starts with the future, a glimpse of it, hardly revealing and then it moves into the present, on that exact moment when Leo and Bryony met again after years of separation. As the two journey in the frontiers of India, their past is revealed through little flashbacks (short details that won't bore you down...