The Pretty Horse-breakers

Innocent young Candida is almost destitute after the death of herbeloved father. Resolving to keep up the family? s modest Elizabethan manor house in Hertfordshire and support Ned, the family? s faithful servant, she sees no alternative but to sell her belovedpitch-black stallion, Pegasus. So, when the worldly Major Hooperoffers to take her and her mount to Hyde Park where she willundoubtedly find a high price, she agrees, though with a heavy heart. Little does she suspect that Major Hooper trades in young women as well as horseflesh ? and soon she finds herself and Pegasus ? sold? to the dashing but awe-inspiring Lord Manville. A terrible maze ofmisunderstanding ensues and just when Candida realises that she haslost her heart to his Lordship, the London Society that seemed socarefree turns cruel. Even as she flees astride Pegasus, she isheartbroken, knowing she may never again see the man she loves ?