Love is never lost

Prompt: Portia Featherington sells her daughter Penelope off in order to save the family from ruin.

Colin returns from his trip to Greece, only to discover Penelope Featherington has been sold by her conniving mother to an old and lecherous Baron to save her family from financial ruin. Colin fails to rescue her from her forced marriage and has to watch as the love of his life slip away from him. The guilt of failing to save her soon torments him to years. Until one summer eventing the two meet again and soon they are given a second chance to rewrite their fate. But will love prevail? Or will the fate pull them apart?
A Colin and Penelope love story with a twist