Only a Promise / Mary Balogh 394 p.
Balogh presents the 5th in the Survivors' Club series. Ralph Stockwood just barely survived the Napoleonic Wars. His three friends did not. This haunts him as he was a leader when they were in school. As the only heir to his family's title, he must, however, find a wife so as to have a heir. When his grandmother's guest, spinster Chloe Muirhead, makes him a marriage offer, he decides to accept. They strike a bargain, he to get a wife and family and she gets a promise that he will never take her to London. She had two seasons in London that ended in disaster. Through no fault of her own, the ton has made her a social outcast. So when circumstances change after their marriage, Ralph feels compelled to change his promise.
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