A Romance Novel by Elizabeth Bailey
Elizabeth Bailey is the author of the Lady Fan historical mystery series
In the tradition of Regency Romance, a gothic and scandalous tale of passion and a tangled inheritance.
Theda’s hopes of security fall apart when she becomes companion in an ill-kept and miserable mansion where quarrels abound and her employer is dying.
Hidden Flame
Seeking shelter from a violent storm, Benedict Beckenham assists a woman as embarrassed in circumstance as he is himself. Weeks later, on visiting his godmother, he is astonished to find the damsel in distress in residence.
For her part, Theda is dismayed by the rise of passion between them which threatens to jeopardise her precarious position as companion to a dying woman. But when a shocking inheritance blasts their friendship apart, Theda is forced to confront the ghosts of her past.
Will the blistering scandals of yesteryear keep Theda and Benedict forever divided? Or will the flame of love triumph?
