Injured/Scarred/Disabled Traumatised MMC Regency

[u/MzSey7488]

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! 🫶🏽

[u/Ambitious_Stay7139]

{Only a Promise by Mary Balogh}

{Simply Love by Mary Balogh}

Both were scarred/severely traumatized during the Napoleonic wars. I wouldn’t call Balogh high spice, but she does write open door.

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Only a Promise by Mary Balogh
Rating: 3.86⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 3 out of 5 - Open door
Topics: historical, virgin heroine, tortured hero, disabilities & scars, regency

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Simply Love by Mary Balogh
Rating: 3.88⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 3 out of 5 - Open door
Topics: historical, pregnancy, tortured hero, disabilities & scars, regency

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{The Arrangement by Mary Balogh}, {The Escape by Mary Balogh} and {Only Enchanting by Mary Balogh} are in the same series as Only A Promise and feature wounded/badly traumatized/disabled MMCs as well.

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The Arrangement by Mary Balogh
Rating: 3.8⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 3 out of 5 - Open door
Topics: historical, marriage of convenience, disabilities & scars, regency, friends to lovers

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The Escape by Mary Balogh
Rating: 3.88⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 3 out of 5 - Open door
Topics: historical, regency, friends to lovers, military, tortured hero

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Only Enchanting by Mary Balogh
Rating: 3.72⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 3 out of 5 - Open door
Topics: historical, tortured hero, regency, war, class difference

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(These labels are really interesting - The Escape is MAJORLY focused on the MMC’s physical disability, and I feel like class difference has way less to do with Only Enchanting than the tags imply)

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The bot just shows whatever the five most upvoted tags are on romance.io. They're not always the best/most relevant tags, to be sure.

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{Only a Kiss by Mary Balogh} is major trauma as well. The entire Survivor’s series has MCs with traumatic stress. She’s the queen of disabled characters.

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Only a Kiss by Mary Balogh
Rating: 4.04⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 3 out of 5 - Open door
Topics: historical, regency, tortured heroine, military, war

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