Physician of Ashbury
A Rags to Romance Regency Romance NovelBy Dorothy Hartwell
Length12h 22m
About this audiobook
The village of Ashbury has a physician's vacancy, no money to fill it, and one woman who knows the work.
Bess Thorpe was apprenticed out of the workhouse and trained in an apothecary's back room. When he dies, she takes his post, his patients, and his name — on sufferance.
Five weeks in, the estate sends someone to audit the books. Edmund Ashby is a third son with a surgeon's training and no prospects, ordered to close a village he has never visited.
He finds out what Bess is doing within a week. He does not report her. He picks up a saw and helps.
But the estate will not appoint a woman, and the village will not accept anyone else. What Bess wants is her own name on the post. What Edmund must decide is how much of his family he is willing to give away to keep it there.
A rags to romance regency romance set in one small village that refuses to lose the woman who keeps it alive.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Historical Fiction
Length12 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
13Twelve
2One
14Thirteen
3Two
15Fourteen
4Three
16Fifteen
5Four
17Sixteen
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6Five
18Seventeen
7Six
19Eighteen
8Seven
20Nineteen
9Eight
21Twenty
10Nine
22Epilogue
11Ten
23About the author
12Eleven
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