The Elusive Flame (56 page)

K
ATHLEEN
E. W
OODIWISS
wrote the very first historical romance novel in 1972—
The Flame and the Flower
created a genre and made Ms. Woodiwiss one of the world’s most popular writers, with 36 million books in print. In celebration of Ms. Woodiwiss’s new novel,
The Reluctant Suitor
(2003), HarperCollins is publishing Ms. Woodiwiss’s classic backlist, including the complete Birmingham Family Saga:
The Flame and the Flower; The Elusive Flame
;
A Season Beyond a Kiss
. Also available are Ms. Woodiwiss’s
Ashes in the Wind
;
Come Love a Stranger
;
Forever in Your Embrace; Petals on the River
;
A Rose in Winter
;
Shanna
;
So Worthy My Love
;
The Wolf and the Dove
.

Ashes in the Wind

Come Love a Stranger

The Flame and the Flower

The Elusive Flame

Forever in Your Embrace

Petals on the River

A Rose in Winter

Shanna

So Worthy My Love

The Wolf and the Dove

A Season Beyond a Kiss

The Reluctant Suitor

Credits

Front Cover art by Wendy Popp

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE ELUSIVE FLAME
. Copyright © 1999 by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

ePub edition April 2003 eISBN 9780061741548

First Avon Books mass market printing: May 1999
First Avon Books trade printing: 1998

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