The Vagabond Duchess — Claire Thornton

He's promised to return

But Jack Bow is dead. And Temperance Challinor's quietly respectable life is changed forever.

Practical Temperance has no time to grieve for the irresistible rogue who gave her one night of comfort in a blazing city. She must protect her unborn child-by pretending to be Jack's widow.

A foolproof plan. Until she arrives at Jack's home...and the counterfeit widow of a vagabond becomes the real wife of a very much alive duke!