THE FLAME IS LOVE Emmeline Nevada Holtz was the richest—and the most sheltered—girl in America. Temporarily stranded in Paris without a chaperone, Emmeline realized that this was her one chance to experience life in a way she never had before. Her determination to enjoy her new-found freedom would lead Emmeline to some of the most dissolute pleasure palaces in Paris and to social acquaintances whose respectability was just a front for a most horrifying evil. But it would also lead her straight into the arms of the only man she would ever love.