I read a romance novel about a woman named elizabeth who is forced to marry a guy she hates named leon. He leaves for america and comes back five years later to take her to America. When they are there she startes to fall in love with him. Then he is accused of murder and leaves her again. He has his friend take her and then he is proven innocent. At the end of the book she says she is pregnant. She quotes, "our child will be born on American soil." what is the title and author of this book?

This one? --

Cherished by Elizabeth Thornton

A rich, spellbinding tale of passion and adventure that sweeps from the glittering ballrooms of Regency England to the turbulent shores of America... as a headstrong aristocratic beauty loses her heart to the one man she'd never dreamed she could ever love-her husband.

At sixteen, high-born Lady Emily Brockton had been forced by circumstance to wed the notorious, devastatingly seductive Leon Devereux. But theirs had been a marriage in name only, and the handsome rakehell had soon set sail for America, leaving his chaste young bride alone and at the mercy of every fortune-hunting scoundrel in the ton. Five years later, they would meet again at a society ball... when a masked stranger swept Emily into his virile embrace. But it was a dangerous destiny that brought Devereux back to England and to the woman he'd sworn to possess at all costs. And even as Emily found herself surrendering to his searing caresses, a treacherous enemy threatened to tear her forever from the arms of the man she'd vowed never to love... but now could no longer live without!

Cherished