Lady Jocelyn must find a husband fast if she wants to keep her inheritance. When she meets dying David Lancaster, she thinks it's the perfect opportunity; she gets a husband for a short while and he gets an annuity for his sister. Things go wrong (or right) when David instead recovers from his wounds gotten at Waterloo. 
 I wasn't far into this before I realized I had read this book before (apparently, the book has been retitled). Still, I enjoyed the reread. Jocelyn is a brat at first, but David is just lovely. He's very patient with her and helps her to realize that maybe marriage isn't so bad after all. It takes a while to actually like Jocelyn as there's this subplot where she intends to have an affair with a Duke she thinks she's attracted to and I was team David. Mary Jo Putney rarely disappoints though I did think the secondary characters of David's sister Sally and his doctor Ian deserved their own book.