I Take Thee: A Marriage of Convenience Romance

A Gilded Age novella series from Constance Kent

Claire Jefferson was the least likely of the Brooklyn Foundling Home orphans to find a husband. Suffering debilitating pain, she's finally had enough when Dr. Benjamin Braithwaite arrives to examine her. Braithwaite is a brillant surgeon who failed spectacularly when a patient died during a surgical procedure viewed by a packed theater of observers. Claire submits to his experimental surgical technique and when she doesn't die, she falls in love with the tall, quiet widower. 

When Braithwaite proposes marriage for the sake of her full recovery and to provide a mother for his young son, Claire enthusiastically enters into a marriage of convenience, believing she knows everything about her new husband.