When Joanna finds herself destitute after her gambler father's suicide, unable to find work, and is offered instead a marriage of convenience, she sees no other option. Sir Kenelm needs a wife as a chaperone, since governesses are reluctant to live in a widower’s household.
The twins, children of his first wife, refuse to accept her as a new mama. The governess, having thought she too was applying for the position of governess, resents her.
The Chaperone Bride
By Marina Oliver
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I wanted a story with a marriage of convenience theme, so I needed to find suitable reasons why a man and woman would agree to such. Because Joanna's father, a soldier, sold out after it was thought Napoleon was safely on Elba, this fixed the time as 1814, so I could bring in the battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the plot began to take shape.