The Earl's Sweet Bride

By Roxie Brandon

Lord Edward Ridgeway saved Lady Regina Sterling from a dire situation, and she can’t seem to get her mind off the handsome Earl.

But Lady Regina Sterling is being forced into a marriage with the Duke of Langley. Lord Ridgeway comes to the rescue and forms a plan to save Regina from her terrible predicament.

This Regency romance is a sweet read with a guaranteed happily ever after.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Roxie Brandon
• Release date: Apr 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463504239

Roxie Brandon

Roxie Brandon is an author of historical and contemporary romance, beauty and fashion books.Her romances range in setting from Medieval times to the Twentieth Century.She loves walks in the countryside and having afternoon tea with family and friends.

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The Earl’s

Sweet Bride

Copyright © 2020 Roxie Brandon All Rights Reserved

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, events, and places portrayed in this book are products of the author’s imagination and are either fictitious or are used fictitiously. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended by the author.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Epilogue

CHAPTER ONE

The autumn breeze tousled Regina's hair and pinked her cheeks. The warmth that had been in the wind just last week had either evaporated into the sky or leached into the earth. It gave life to the long grass at the side of the road, still yellowing from the high August sun.

Regina was unlike the other women. She wanted to be independent. She had thoughts and ideas of her own and she wanted to make them heard. She was going to choose her own husband one day.

Regina began to cry. How could she possibly be happy when her love was taken from her?

She remembered that day when Henry, her fiancé, had arrived. There was a gathering at the house for a hunt and she rode out on her horse with Henry by her side. All she thought that day was how in another few weeks, they would be married. Life was perfect that morning.

Wind whipping through her hair, Regina leaned forward, urging her horse to greater speed.

Henry!

Her voice travelled over the distance and the thundering of their horses’ hooves as though she was right beside him.

Will you forfeit?

Never!

A sparkle came to Regina’s eyes as her lips curved upward.

I shall be lenient if you surrender now.

Never! Henry repeated, pulling his stallion around another thickly growing monster barring his path.

Regina’s delightful laughter, like a brook babbling in the early morning air, reached his ears, almost making him reconsider. As much as he loved her, he had never granted her an easy victory.

So he urged his horse on and soon pulled up alongside her. Seeing him next to her, she too spurred her horse onward.

Dear Henry, for sure you will not make me lose face.

He laughed. It is only us. And I swear I will not breathe a word should you lose this once, Regina.

Biting her lower lip, she leaned forward as the wind whipped through her hair and caught in her long skirts.

Regina Sterling does not lose! Her eyes twinkled as she glanced at him. Never! Not even once!

Although he knew how furious she would be with him if he allowed her to gain ground, his heart just wasn’t set on winning this race, but on seeing her win instead.

As the distance between them grew once more, Regina called to him over her shoulder. Do not disappoint me, Henry. Have you no honor?

Her playful insult burned in his heart, and he once again urged his horse on. The path soon levelled out, leaving behind bordering trees and opening up to green pastures, glowing in the early sun.

Henry felt his horse’s flanks move as he pursued her. Soon, she was almost within his reach,