title: The Colonel's Lady
author: Oliver, Patricia
description: Love or Honor?
  
  Lady Regina Heathercott, young, beautiful, and wealthy, could have any man she wanted. And no man had ever made her want him like the superbly handsome Captain Charles Swinburn. His stolen kisses stole her heart and left her aching to give him still more--when the upright figure of another man stepped between them.
  
  Colonel Sir Richard Swinburn, Charles' arrogant elder brother, was as insultingly indifferent to Regina's charms as he was infuriatingly suspicious about Charles' intentions toward her. This icy officer offered her propriety in place of passion, honor instead of love. And soon Regina found herself being quickstepped to the altar with the wrong man for the wrong reasons. Now she feared that unless marriage held unsuspected surprises, the one she adored would make her break her wedding vows almost as soon as she made them....