The Unquiet Heart by Kaite Welsh

Sarah has been an embarrassment to her parents.  They hold a good position in society and scandal is bad.  She refuses to marry and wants to go to medical school.  They send her to school to remove her from the household but still harp on her getting married.  They think a woman should just be a wife.  She doesn't.  She wants become a doctor and live on her own!

Pegasus Books and Edelweiss allowed me to read this book for review (thank you).  It will be published on May 7th.

Sarah had been raped.  The doctors saw her in such trauma, they did a hysterectomy on her.  So her parents think of her as blighted.  Finding her a husband won't be easy but her aunt manages to find a young man who would marry her.  Sarah doesn't want to marry.  She wants to be a doctor.  But she can't complain too loudly or they will put her back in a sanitarium.  Being a woman at this point in life means conforming, not being different.

Then her future husband is accused of murder.  She doesn't want to marry him, but she also knows he's no killer.  Everyone assumes she's wrong.  But she's not, and she's out to prove it.

As she deals more with him, she finds out he's a nice man.  But she's afraid she's in love with another man.  While she struggles with finding the killer, which man is really her love interest, and trying to still maintain her own freedom, she gets closer to the killer and possibly her own death...

I enjoyed the characters and the challenges Sarah faces.  I'd read another in this series.