The Ruthless Rake

The Earl of Rothingham was a rake, an unrepentant rake. All of eighteenth-century England declared him so after he refuses a request from the Prince of Wales requested to marry his mistress--Lady Elaine Wilmot-- to choose himself a bride and leaves the splendours of Carlton House for his country estate. But the Earl was not a cruel man. And when, while riding in the country woods one day, this cynical autocrat came upon a lady in distress his heart was touched. The lady was lovely Syringa Melton-- young, innocent and ethereally beautiful. Hard times had fallen on her family and she was forced to give up her most cherished possessions. She had broken-hearted at the prospect of having to lose her white stallion, Mercury, to meet the debts of a dissolute father. Out of kindness and pity, the Earl brought Syringa to London to start a new lift. But it was a grave mistake. Lady Elaine was waiting for Syringa--waiting to trap her in a bitter and treacherous web of jealousy, intrigue and near death. Syringa goes to the glittering salons of London to the horrors of Newgate Prison.

שנה

1974

שפה

English

הוצאה

Bantam Books

מהדורות

5

ISBN

9780553082401

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata