Sometimes you find an older book that is a gem. You manage to overlook some old fashioned bits because the story is good and you care about the characters.

This turned out not to be one of them.

The heroine was in an accident that left her wheelchair bound.A doctor comes up with a crackpot idea that maybe..possibly she could regain her use of her legs if she got married and had baby.Maybe.

"So!" said the doctor. "Many years ago I had a patient in the
hospital in Vienna, a young woman, married only a few months.
She had had a bad accident in climbing a mountain and was
brought in for dead. Gradually she recovered except that her
legs were paralyzed. I did all I knew, to no avail. She went
home, as we believed, never to walk again."
Kirkland was scarcely breathing.
"Yes?" he prompted as the other hesitated.
The great doctor spoke with more difficulty.
"Later her husband reported to me that she was going to have
a child. It was bom in our hospital. I was in close touch with
the case. While she was in desperate labor she stood up, quite
unconscious that she was doing so, and walked across the room
with the nurse's help. Some subtle nerve block in the brain had
apparently been released. Afterwards her legs functioned normally."

Thats almost as bad as an old classic movie I once saw where a girl who was lame was cured by putting liniment on her legs. Oh you crazy 50s doctors.

The love interest is a young lawyer who wants to advance his political career. But how? Through hard work? Dont be silly. If only he could get someone influential to back him...

Anyway back to the plot,her father is a very very very influential man and he hears about the lawyer guy wanting to become a hotshot politician and gets an idea.

"Capital! Ill have him marry my daughter!"

So he puts the idea to him and lawyer/wannabe politician guy agrees tentatively.He goes to their house to meet the girl. She is beautiful and demure and they hit it off right away.

and thats as far as I read before I labeled this book a dnf.
Maybe I will skip ahead though to see if the girl regains the use of her legs.

If you want to read a romance with a wheelbound heroine who get married I recommend [b:Dancing with Clara|969587|Dancing with Clara (Sullivan, #2)|Mary Balogh|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1328040883s/969587.jpg|954484] instead.
or
[b:Phantom Waltz|89359|Phantom Waltz (Kendrick/Coulter/Harrigan, #2)|Catherine Anderson|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1347390594s/89359.jpg|86241] ( )