title: The Improper Wife
author: Perkins, Diane
description: She said:
  How could I, Maggie Delaney, have been duped? Swept off my feet and married to a man who lied about his name, I now find myself at the mercy of extreme circumstances, with no money and an infant son. But I have found the owner of my husband's false name: Captain John Grayson, a soldier, a hero, and a man of means. He doesn't believe my story, but there is hope. Captain Grayson's cousins, of big hearts and little suspicion, are eager to accept his new "wife" and make me a lady. How can I, a woman on the brink of ruin, refuse?
  
  He said:
  Does she take me, Captain John Grayson, for a fool...easily taken in by her beauty and willing to go along with her charade? When she first came to me with her preposterous cIaims, I did my gentlemanly duty. I paid her debts and took no advantage of her. Now I find her and her son at my ancestral home, beloved by all. I could easily throw her out, but her fierce pride and smoldering eyes tempt me to keep her...and make her my wife both in my heart and my bed.