Secret for a Nightingale - Victoria Holt

Susanna Pleydell is a charming young innocent who has a very special power -a gift for healing – and when, in India, she marries the magnetic rake Aubrey St Clare, she expects to live happily ever after. Until she discovers that the man she has married has a sinister, dark secret.

When Susanna meets with the enigmatic Dr Damien further disaster strikes. And it isn’t until she travels to the dreaming domes and spires of exotic Constantinople and the grim hospital wards of Scutari that she comes face to face with her destiny and learns the truth about the mysterious Dr Damien.