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The Reluctant Wife by Warfield, Caroline is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Captain Fred Wheatly’s comfortable life on the fringes of Bengal comes crashing down around him when his mistress dies, leaving him with two children he never expected to have to raise. After he chooses justice over army regulations, he’s forced to resign his position, leaving him no way to support his unexpected family. He’s already had enough failures in his life. The last thing he needs is an attractive, interfering woman bedeviling his steps, reminding him of his duties.All widowed Clare Armbruster needs is her brother’s signature on a legal document to be free of her past. After a failed marriage, and still mourning the loss of a child, she’s had it up to her ears with the assumptions she doesn't know how to take care of herself, that what she needs is a husband, and with a great lout of a captain who can't figure out what to do with his daughters. If only the frightened little girls didn’t need her help so badly. Clare has made mistakes in the past. Can she trust Fred now? Can she trust herself? Captain Wheatly isn’t ashamed of his aristocratic heritage, but he doesn’t need his family and they’ve certainly never needed him. But with no more military career and two half-caste

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Warfield, Caroline
Published
2017
Language
EN
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Romance, Fiction
Rating
3.62 / 5 (398 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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