Shadow of Flames: A Novel

590 pp. "Princess Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy (August 23, 1863 - June 15, 1945) was an American author of novels, poetry, and plays. The Quick or the Dead? (1888), her first novel, which sold 300,000 copies, created more of a sensation than any of her later work. Her 1914 novel, World's End was reputed to be "the best seller in New York City". Described as a genius who was morbidly sensitive, she was a woman of moods and fancies, but in manner, as simple as a child.[1] Amélie Louise Rives was born in 1863 in Richmond, Virginia to Alfred L. Rives, an engineer, and the former Sadie MacMurdo. She was named after her aunt, Amélie, a goddaughter of French Queen Marie-Amélie.[2] She was a goddaughter of Robert E. Lee and a granddaughter of the engineer and Senator William Cabell Rives, Minister Plenipotentiary to France in the early part of the 19th century.[3]"