Below the King’s Bath in 1873, where the steam never lifts and the coppers never cool, Tibby Rew has washed Bath’s spa linen since she was fourteen.
She has a little sister to keep, a mother in a pauper’s grave, and one small gift nobody has ever had a use for. Tibby counts. Pulses, breaths, doses, hours. She cannot help it.
When a moment of quick thinking on the colonnade lifts her out of the laundry and into the Pump Room itself, she finds herself carrying glasses of spa water to the richest invalids in England. And she watches. She watches a half-pay captain whose hands shake worse after his medicine than before it. She watches a sharp old dowager dim into a sleepy stranger.
She watches the most beloved physician in the west of England smile, and smile, and pour.
The figures do not lie. But Tibby is a laundry girl with red hands and no name worth the ink, and Dr Gage is a gentleman with thirty years of gratitude behind him.
She has begun counting him. Now he has begun counting her.
Who will a jury believe?
Genre: Romance
She has a little sister to keep, a mother in a pauper’s grave, and one small gift nobody has ever had a use for. Tibby counts. Pulses, breaths, doses, hours. She cannot help it.
When a moment of quick thinking on the colonnade lifts her out of the laundry and into the Pump Room itself, she finds herself carrying glasses of spa water to the richest invalids in England. And she watches. She watches a half-pay captain whose hands shake worse after his medicine than before it. She watches a sharp old dowager dim into a sleepy stranger.
She watches the most beloved physician in the west of England smile, and smile, and pour.
The figures do not lie. But Tibby is a laundry girl with red hands and no name worth the ink, and Dr Gage is a gentleman with thirty years of gratitude behind him.
She has begun counting him. Now he has begun counting her.
Who will a jury believe?
Genre: Romance
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