Full name: Hidden Flame: A Georgian Romance

Author: Elizabeth Bailey Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780263139761 026313976X

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. 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?