Doctors and Drifters

Lydia Marchant left medicine fifteen years ago and never explained why. Now she keeps an inn on the Yorkshire road and has stopped expecting the past to stop at her door. Then a snowstorm brings a surgeon to her gate with a broken axle and a patient bleeding inside. It is Stephen Vale. The man who trained beside her, and the man whose silence let a rumour end her career. There is no road to a hospital and no time to wait. For two days, an inn kitchen becomes an operating theatre, and the only person Stephen trusts to hold the light is the woman who has spent fifteen years refusing to be a doctor. When the storm clears, Lydia wants the record set right, not an apology. And Stephen wants a partner, not a debt. A regency romance of reunion, medicine, and second chances, where the sign on the door carries two names — and hers goes on first.