The Ruthless Rake Author:Barbara Cartland 'I would not credit that you of all people would deceive me and behave in such a manner. I trusted you, Syringa.' — Lord Rothingham efuses a request from the Prince of Wales to choose himself a bride and leaves the splendours of Carlton House for his country estate. — Whilst riding in the woods, this cynical autocrat discovers lovely Syrin... more »ga Melton, broken-hearted at the prospect of having to lose her white stallion, Mercury, to meet the debts of a dissolute father.
This fateful meeting leads Syringa to the glittering salons of eighteenth-century London and, later, to the horrors of Newgate Prison before true love triumphs over a tangle of treachery and deceit.« less