The Scent of Roses — Margaret Brazear

To save her father from debtor's prison and the noble name of her family from disgrace, Lady Felice Sutton agrees to marry Lord Christopher despite his reputation for violence and ruthlessness. She is grateful and is determined to make him a good wife, but his reputation is well earned and she finds being a good wife to him to be far more difficult than she ever suspected. She wants to love him, wants to have a future with him, but she is afraid to ask him why his first wife lies buried in a pauper's grave, or why he still visits the peasant woman who has his children. Set in England amid the black death of 1348, a pestilence which wiped out millions, this is a story of love and passion, jealousy and sacrifice, and one woman's quest to find goodness in a man who appears to have none to find.