Tormenting Flame

by Nancy John

Tina found her deepest fears to be justified.

Tina Harcourt, hired by Brant Wakefield to write a history of his family, expected an enjoyable summer. But from the moment she met Brant, nothing seemed to go right.

Most disturbing of all, though Brant's advances seemed designed only to hurt her, she couldn't keep herself from responding to him--responding as she never had to Charles, her very proper fiance.

All her life she had been afraid of her dark, passionate nature. And now she had to fight the passions that were her only tie to the man she loved.

188 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1980

About the author

Nancy Jean Buckingham was born on 10 August 1924 in Bristol, England, UK. In 1949, she married John Sawyer, born on 4 October 1919 in London, England, UK. They formed one of the most popular writting-team marriage. The first books published under her maiden name Nancy Buckingham since 1967, are classical gothic novels. In 1970s, they started to used the pseudonyms: Christina Abbey and Erica Quest. In 1980, they sold her first novels to Silhouette, and they mixed their names to create the penname Nancy John. They also published one novel as Hilary London. The last novels that they published are a popular police series as Erica Quest, protagonized by the Detective Chief Inspector Kate Maddox. Their last novel was released in 1992.

Nancy Jean Buckingham Sawyer was the eighth elected Chairman (1973-1975) of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and is now one of its vice-presidents. John passed away in 1994.