
The Duchess Deal
Tessa Dare
2017

Laura Kinsale · 1992
560 pages
A stroke leaves the powerful Duke of Jerveaux unable to speak, and his family shuts him away in a grim asylum. Maddy Timms, a young Quaker nurse, is the only one who sees the man inside. Her care revives him, but their growing bond offends both his world and her strict community.
Regency England, Slow Burn, Outcast Hero, Forbidden Love, Forced Proximity, Asylum