The Lady In The Flame

Twelve year-old Ricka, an orphan at Alston Manor School for Girls, has been ordered to bring up food from the cold, dreary cellar. She grips her lantern tightly as she descends the stone stairs, terrifed that her lantern will go out and that she will be stranded in the dark.
Ricka's fear of the dark goes back to her earliest memories, back to the time when Ricka's parents, in an effort to save her tiny daughter from marauding soldiers, hides her under the loose floorboards of their small ap...