Touch My Heart, Not Just My Wounds

She was trained by one of the great modern medical families and she is very good. Then she wakes in an ancient world where birth decides everything and a woman on her own decides nothing. Her read on the situation is practical: attach herself to the strongest thing in reach and let her hands do the arguing. The strongest thing in reach is a prince with absolute authority, a cold temper, and legs that no longer work. Physicians have come and failed and he has stopped expecting anything from them. He has also kept women well away from him for years, which is a rule she ignores completely. She examines him without asking permission, tells him what she is going to do, and treats his objections as noise. The court watches a shameless woman handle the one man nobody handles. He should have her thrown out. What settles in him instead is the idea that she should not be permitted to leave.