The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. It shows two men in an intimate embrace in a drawing room. The walls are green, there is a long brown curtain over a window, and a brown cabinet is on the right with a chess table in front of it. The man in front is black, with short black hair, wearing a grey suit and looking down at the floor. He is holding the arm that is wrapped around him. The man behind him is white, with curly brown hair and a white shirt. He is kissing the first man’s neck and has an arm wrapped under his shoulder. The author’s name “EE Ottoman” is at the top in slim cream capitals. The title “The Doctor’s Discretion” is at the bottom in large orange capitals. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Transphobia
• Homophobia
• Sexual Content
• Ableism
• Racism
• Sexual Violence
• Slavery
• Medical Abuse
• Violence
• Kidnapping

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Summary:

New York City, 1831.

Passion, medicine and a plan to break the law …

When Doctor William Blackwood, a proper gentleman who prefers books to actual patients, meets retired Navy surgeon Doctor Augustus Hill, they find in each other not just companionship but the chance of pleasure–and perhaps even more. The desire between them is undeniable but their budding relationship is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious patient at New York Hospital.

Mr. Moss has been accused of being born a woman but living his life as a man, an act that will see him committed to an asylum for the rest of his life. William and Augustus are determined to mount a rescue even if it means kidnapping him instead.

Their desperate plan sets William and Augustus against the hospital authorities, and the law. Soon they find themselves embroiled in New York’s seedy underworld, mixed up with prostitutes, spies, and more than a lifetime’s worth of secrets. When nothing is as it seems can they find something real in each other?

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Notes:

I think this may be an ebook/kindle book only i.e. there is no hard copy.

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Archivist Comments:

I keep seeing occasional references to one of the characters being intersex. I haven’t been able to fully confirm it yet, but I’ve put it here for now and will change it if necessary.

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