Piers lives in a crumbling castle in Wales, tending to his garden of medicinal herbs and his patients—because, despite being a peer of the realm, he is also a brilliant, unlicensed physician. When Linnet arrives, she expects a monster. What she finds is a man with a severely injured leg (which causes him constant pain), a misanthropic worldview, and a habit of saying the most outrageously rude things.
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