The Nanny Who Won the Noble House

She spends her working life as a childcare nurse and dies of overwork. She wakes in a famine year, in the body of a widow walking the roads with a small daughter. The girl has to be fed, so she goes to the marquis's household, which is taking on a wet nurse. She gets through the selection and is turned down anyway. Soon after that the infant heir chokes while feeding and stops breathing, and she clears his airway with a method nobody in the room has seen before. The second son of the house sets the earlier decision aside and lets her in, her daughter with her. Inside the manor there is more than the baby to deal with. She treats the eldest daughter's illness. The seventh girl, who nobody in the house can control, gets handled. She goes through the accounts and changes the way they are kept, and she works out what actually happened in matters the family had never got to the bottom of. The fourth son is mild and has no standing of his own, and she talks him into leaving to make something of himself, which takes him into the army. She is accused of things she did not do and has to prove it. A man called Li Song is working against her, and there is trouble coming at the frontier.