The Temporary Wife

Mary Balogh

Lord Anthony Earheart, the estranged heir to a duke, marries a poor, plain gentlewoman named Charity Duncan purely to enrage the father he despises, intending to send her away once his point is made. As Charity moves into his cold, dysfunctional family's household, she quietly works to heal old wounds between Anthony and his relatives while falling unexpectedly in love with the husband who chose her as a weapon. What begins as a marriage of spite gradually becomes something neither of them anticipated.