The Last Deception of Palliser Wentwood — Imogen de la Bere

A charming Irish rogue, Palliser Wentwood leaves New Zealand and his family to seek his fortune in England, finding a job as a butler and posing as a widower to woo the shy, conventional, and obese Blanche Lovelace, while his wife back home is faced with a suitor of her own. A first novel.