Bewitching Lady — Margaret Summerville

Dangerous Medicine

Beautiful, brilliant Alethea Brandon broke the rules of what a young lady should be and do. She stayed secluded in the English countryside, far from the social swim, plunging instead into studies of natural medicine and folk magic. Rather than following the whirl-a-gig of fashion, she pursued wisdom in ancient books and watched her herbal garden grow.

But if Alethea would not go to London, London came to her in the imposing form of the Marquess of Worcester, arriving at his local estate with his highborn bride-to-be. This handsome lord was everything Alethea detested--indecently rich, horrible haughty, and maddeningly sure of himself and his infuriating ideas. But when he was taken violently ill, Alethea could not refuse to bring him back to health--only to find that while she could heal him, she could not keep herself from falling sick with love...