Birmingham Family · Book 2
The Elusive Flame
- Published
- 1 January 1998
- Pages
- 428
- ISBN-13
- 9780060768522
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Elusive Flame (1998) picks up the story as book four in the family's timeline at 428 pages, the shortest of the three novels, shifting focus to the next generation via Heather and Brandon's son -- arriving 26 years after The Flame and the Flower.
Its place in Birmingham Family
The Elusive Flame is book 2 in the Birmingham Family series. It follows The Flame and the Flower. It is followed by A Season Beyond a Kiss. See the full Birmingham Family reading order.
The Flame and the Flower (1972) is widely credited as the book that created the modern historical romance genre: the first mass-market original romance novel to combine an explicit, extended love story with the sweeping historical-adventure plotting previously reserved for gothic and historical fiction, following penniless orphan Heather Simmons and Charleston ship captain Brandon Birmingham from a forced marriage to a genuine, hard-won love. Its runaway success (Avon's first mass-market original paperback…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780060768522