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After a series of tragedies, young Linda Lovelace finds herself more or less on her own. Fortunately she has her job at a draper's shop and there meets Nelly Sweet. When Nelly takes her to a dance she meets Nelly takes her to a dance she meets Nelly's friend Bill Sargent and the man known as the Black Prince, Andrew Lincoln. When Lincoln offers to back Linda in her own business venture she is too thrilled to doubt his motive. Only when friends and even her estranged mother drop hints and begin to shun her does Linda decide to talk things over with Lincoln. To her horror she realizes too late why the Black Prince is so called... Ruby Ayres (1881-1955) was born in London. Her first novel Richard Chatterton V. C. was published in 1916, after which she produced almost 150 titles. Although Ayres was known primarily for her romantic novels, she also wrote serials for the Daily Chronicle and Daily Mirror , as well as motion pictures in the United States and England. Her play Silver Wedding , was produced in 1932.

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography called Ruby M. Ayres "one of the most popular and prolific romantic novelists of the twentieth century".