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The Ruthless Rake

(1974)
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Lord Rothingham refuses 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 Syringa 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.

Genre: Historical Romance

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