Marriage of Mercy (Mills & Boon Historical)

Marriage of Mercy (Mills & Boon Historical) by Carla Kelly. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780263892475.

MARRYING THE WRONG GROOM...From riches to rags, Grace has had to swallow her pride and get a job as a baker. But everything changes when shes the beneficiary of a surprise inheritance...Her benefactors deal comes with a catch: give up her life of toil and live in luxury only if she marries his illegitimate son, a prisoner of war. Its an offer she cant afford to refuse. But her husband-to-be is dying, and he begs her to take one of his men instead...to marry purely out of mercy...A marriage of convenience with a complete stranger...Could thisi arrangement ever work? Kelly has the rare ability to create realistic yet sympathetic characters that linger in the mind. - Library Journal