Temporary Wife / Mary Balogh 245 p. Christmas Challenge: 10 Lords-a-Leaping

Mary Balogh, Regency-era romance genre, tells of Miss Charity Duncan who agrees to be the temporary wife of Lord Anthony Earheart after answering his ad. Lord Earheart wishes a wife who will antagonize his father and then disappear.  In return, Charity gets an income that her family desperately needs. As it happens she falls in love.  And he, ah, that is the story.