title: The Flame
author: Fritch, Elizabeth
description: Melissa Armstrong was beautiful, young and determined to abide by her father's last request -- to get to her uncle's home in Richmond before the Civil War started.  --  And it's there that she meets Jackson Vaughn, a tall, handsome Cavalry lieutenant under Jeb Stuart's command. Amidst the raging battle of a country divided they are swept into a fiery love affair. But when Jackson proposes marriage Melissa is alarmed. How can she marry a Confederate when her heart is with the Union?
  
   Torn between her own loyalties and those of her loved ones, Melissa can only pray that the war will end quickly, that her lover will return home and that no one will discover her heartrending secret!