Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lady’s Patient | 2018 | Abby Ayles | Buy |
Secret to the Ladies’ Hearts contains a single title, The Lady’s Patient, published in 2018. The story uses a classic romance setup: a lady finds herself tending to a gentleman in need of care, and the close quarters of the arrangement lead to feelings that go well beyond duty.
The forced-proximity trope works naturally in a Regency setting, where social rules strictly govern how men and women interact. A nursing arrangement creates a rare space where those rules can bend, giving the two characters room to know each other as people rather than as titles and social obligations.