The Cruel Flame

Sheila Holland, known by her pen name Charlotte Lamb (born 22 December 1937 in Dagenham, Essex, England and died 8 October 2000 in Isle of Man), was a prolific and bestselling romantic novelist. She left school at 16, and got a job at the Bank of England as a clerk. Lamb continued to teach herself by taking advantage of the bank's library during show more her lunch breaks and after work. She later worked as a secretary for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Lamb began writing at her husband's suggestion. She wrote her first book in three days and in between raising five children wrote several more novels. She used both her married and maiden names, among other pseudonyms, before her first novel as Charlotte Lamb, Follow a Stranger, was published by Harlequin Mills & Boon in 1973. She died in October 2000 at the age of 62. (Bowker Author Biography) show less