The Healer She Left

Merewyn is eighteen, a hedge healer with a satchel and a bad hand, and no interest in being saved.\n\nBrother Cuthbert is forty-two, a physician-monk with a burnt monastery behind him and twelve years of thankless service in front of him, and no interest in saving anyone.\n\nShe tells him his poultice is wrong. He does not argue.\n\nIt should end there. It does not.\n\nWhen the lord's steward names her a witch, she runs to keep him safe. He follows to keep her honest. What the church enquiry finds is not a scandal but a partnership, and what the village finds is not a sin but a cure.\n\nA Medieval Age Gap Opposites Attract Romance of yarrow, thick fingers, and the long slow work of being right about each other.