Ideal Wife / Mary Balogh 368 p.

Ideal Wife gives a fun accounting of Abigail Gardiner and Miles Ripley's (Earl of Severn) life when she comes to his door to beg for a job and ends up accepting his impulsive marriage proposal.  He is looking for a prim and proper wife and she for a stable home life.  Unforeseen consequences come that make the story take dips and turns with each page in the sexy regency romance.