Thirty-third annual report ... abstracts for 1870 includes "summary of marriages, births and deaths registered in ten years 1861-70".

Single dad Eliot Slater will do anything for his son, but now Eliot is worried he could lose custody—could a marriage of convenience help him keep his son? So he proposes to his boss! Consultant paediatrician Claire Thurman is good friends with her registrar, and his equally cute son. In fact, she is secretly rather attracted to Eliot, even though she tries to keep a professional distance. But when he asks her to become his convenient wife she discovers it's not enough—she wants to be a wife in every way…