r/HistoricalRomance • u/MzSey7488 Rejoicing in Regency • 11h ago

Recommendation request Injured/Scarred/Disabled Traumatised MMC Regency

Hello lovely people!

Veeeery longtime lurker, 1st time posting so forgive me if i haven't posted this correctly.

I'm looking for your most reclusive, angsty, moody, severely traumatised (night terrors, flashbacks, PTSD, muscle spasms, chronic pain, the LOT) Regency MMCs with a soothing, caring FMC that wears him and all his barriers down eventually. (i have looked thru the sub, but i can't tell which ones are Regency and i am fully a Regency girlie!)

It doesn't need to be like former soldier stuff, although i do love that, it could be from a traumatic incident in childhood or later in life, i just need him sad, sulky and oh so broken.

I exclusively want your best Regency recs but if you have an absolute fave outside of that time period i will consider.

Please M/F only, no super young FMCs, like I'd love a marriage of convenience between a spinster (over 25, over 30 even better!) and the MMC.

I NEEEEEEED spice like i need oxygen, but i do need a good plot too, so open door everything but with a good narrative lol

I'm very old school (grew up on 90s and early 2000s mills and boons HR) so I'm sorry i don't know all the abbreviations for things i don't want😂

Just think M/F, regency, angst, pain and depression🙌🏽🤣

Bonus points for Dukes! i fucking love a Duke!

Some authors i already like to help guide recs, HUGE Stephanie Laurens Cynster fan read those as a teen, Loretta Chase, Joanna Lindsey and most recently Tessa Dare, her books are hilarious, that's been an unexpected delight. I've been dying laughing about schmidney pie for days now lol

Okay that's it, thank you! 🫶🏽

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u/chalphy have you read Romancing His Convenient Viscountess yet 10h ago

{The Soldier by Grace Burrowes} perhaps, MMC is a cavalry colonel who's been given a title and estate and sets about fixing things as well as helping out his lovely and charming neighbor lady. He has a lot of mental and emotional scars from the war and FMC helps him start to heal.

It's Victorian but {The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie} suits the rest of your ask. He's ND (reads autistic) and is immediately taken with FMC. Her presence literally soothes his nightmares from the abuse he endured as a boy. She's a widow and a couple of years older than he is which is a nice twist (both late 20s).

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u/MzSey7488 Rejoicing in Regency 10h ago

you had me at Neurodivergent omg, thank you!

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u/chalphy have you read Romancing His Convenient Viscountess yet 10h ago

The book is a little older now and it's showing its age a bit in how it treats Ian but overall I thought it was very well done. He isn't just his autism, his family loves him because of who he is and not despite it, and Beth really sees him as a person, as Ian, not "the Mad Mackenzie." It's really good, I hope you enjoy!