<blockquote>You requested a peek into the years between when Anne rejected Wentworth and when they meet again. I am better at writing smaller slices of time, so I decided to focus on the moment of 'lost hope'. I feel the Anne we see at the beginning of the book is a woman without hope, but I don't feel she was this person even one or 2 years after rejecting him. So I wanted to show that moment when I believe she lost her 'spark of hope' so that the ending of this fic makes you want to pick up the book again and go on that journey with her again.</blockquote>