The Avenger: Thomas Bennet and a Father's Lament: A Pride & Prejudice Variation (The Bennet Wardrobe #6)

Bennet looked at his wife’s swollen lips, softly bruised from several deeply loving kisses, and her flushed complexion, as alluring when gracing the countenance of a woman of forty-four as that of a girl of nineteen. He was one of the lucky few to have fallen in love with the same woman at both ages. The elder had, after all, learned all that the younger could only begin to imagine.

Thomas Bennet, master of Longbourn, has always counted himself amongst the few educated gentlemen of his acquaintance. But he has to travel over a century into the future to discover how little he knows about the woman sharing his life.

Once again, the amazing Bennet Wardrobe proves to be the schoolmaster. Tom Bennet’s lesson? Mrs. Bennet has been formed especially for him.

Fanny Bennet also uncovers deep wells of courage and inspiration as she stands by her man’s side in the bleak years after World War II. Together they lead their descendants in pursuit of the beast who has wronged every member of the Five Families.

In The Avenger, the Bennet Wardrobe emerges into its own as a lead character—one with a greater purpose than simply being a teacher or a city bus. The cabinet needs to instruct Bennets in that which they need so they can play the role it wants in the greater arc of the series.

Readers are introduced to the forces that power the Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis’s Fourth Love, agape; Jacobson’s Fifth Love, exagoras agapis, the love that redeems; and the Sixth Love, Synchotikí agape, the love that forgives.

The Avenger: Thomas Bennet and a Father’s Lament is the sixth volume of the Bennet Wardrobe series and chronicles Mr. and Mrs. Bennet’s journey through the Wardrobe to visit their daughter, the Countess of Matlock, in her own where/when. This novel is about 131,000 words in length.