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The Flame and the Flower but the skittish horse he chose bucks him to the ground. A tree limb collapsed on him, killing him instantly. The charges against Brandon are dropped, and he and Heather live happily ever after. At the time of this novel's publication, romance novels, especially those distributed in mass-market format, were generally very chaste, with minimal physical intimacy between the protagonists. Heroines remained virgins–or chaste widows–throughout the novel. "The Flame and the Flower" departed from this notion quite early in the book. The sexual encounters were not only graphic, but also sometimes violent and non-consensual. The heroine was not only raped