The Game and the Candle

"The Game and the Candle" by Eleanor M. Ingram is a captivating novel that explores the difficult choices faced by two brothers, John and Robert Allard, as they struggle to save their family from financial disaster. Set in a lavish California estate, the story follows the brothers as they contemplate risky and potentially unlawful actions to secure their fortune, weighing their love and loyalty for family against their moral principles. Haunted by the potential consequences to their Aunt Rose and Theodora, they must face the high stakes repercussions that threaten to tear their family apart. The narrative opens with a shadowed dilemma, as the brothers consider a daring proposition that sets them on a dangerous path where loyalty and morality collide with the weight of family obligation.