Beggar on Horseback — Sylvia Thorpe

Lovely Dorothea Stratton's life had always been sheltered and serene. Then her brother gambled away the entire family fortune, and she knew things would never be the same again.

She assumed that she would remain quietly at Gallows Farm, never being able to marry now that her dowry was in the hands of that detestable card shark, Kelvin Rainham.

Then one day a wounded stranger was brought to the farm. He called himself Anthony Forrest and Dorothea promptly began to fall in love with him. She had no way of knowing that he was really Kelvin Rainham.

How long would it be before Dorothea found out that this handsome stranger was the scoundrel responsible for her family's shame and ruin....