A Bride for Colonel Avington: A Regency Romance (Beniton Hall Series)

A Bride for Colonel Avington: A Regency Romance (Beniton Hall Series)

Will the secrets from her past and the shadows from his keep their marriage of convenience from becoming something more? After a decade in His Majesty’s army, Richard Avington returns to London a colonel, a landowner, and a jaded, lonely soul. When an intriguing young woman from the fringes of polite society runs into trouble, Richard plays the savior and offers to marry her. But can he truly extricate her from the complications of her past when his own demons still haunt him? Determined to protect her last living family member, young Adelaide Pershing agrees to marry the gentlemanly Colonel Avington. But it requires more than a marriage of convenience to cover the scars she carries from her childhood and to pull him back from the disillusionment he carries. Through pain, tears, hope, and perseverance, Richard and Adelaide work to heal each other’s invisible wounds and to earn their happily ever after.