The Physician She Left Behind

Ten years ago Clara Ashby loved an apothecary's apprentice and was sent away for it. Now she is a lady's maid, and her mistress has sent her to nurse a widowed physician on the Dorset coast. The patient is James Merrill. James has spent a decade building a practice on discipline and distance, and he has kept neither where Clara is concerned. As she tends his injuries, the old arguments resume — and so does something neither of them ever finished. But there is a name in her father's letters. Sir Hollis. The man who ruined her family, and the man courting James's young ward for her fortune. To clear her father's name, Clara must decide whether to trust the man she once lost. And James must decide whether a physician with no name of his own can ask a woman to share it. A rags to romance regency romance about second chances, hard-won respect, and the long way home.