She’s determined to avenge her father’s brutal murder-even if it means feigning an engagement to the very man she believes committed the crime.Ī century later, Amelia Woods-a WWII widow who has turned Parham Hill Estate and its beloved library into a boarding school for refugee children-receives military orders to house a troop of American pilots. While there, master portrait artist Franz Winterhalter takes her under his wing, but Elizabeth’s real motive for being at Parham Hill has nothing to do with art.
In Victorian England, talented sketch artist Elizabeth Meade is engaged to Viscount Huxley, then owner of Parham Hill. Could this lost painting of Queen Victoria be a duplicate of the original Winterhalter masterpiece, and if so, who is the artist?Īs Keira begins to unravel the mystery behind the portrait of the queen, two women emerge from the estate’s forgotten past. But from the time she arrives at Parham Hill Estate and begins working alongside rumored art thief Emory Scott, she’s left with far more questions than answers. When art historian Keira Foley is hired to authenticate a painting at a centuries-old East Suffolk manor, she hopes this is just the thing to get her career and life back on track. Three women, separated by time, whose lives are irrevocably changed. Beautiful cover, beautiful book!Ī lost painting of Queen Victoria. And the romance – sigh! I truly loved following all three stories and watching how they braid together.You know how they say not to judge a book by its cover? Well, in this case, do.
Kristy Cambron lovingly sketches the English scenery, and the story is enriched though the glimpses of history. The Painted Castle unfolds the mysteries of Parham Hill Estate through three intriguing women in three eras, united by a portrait, a library, and tragedies. But Emory has a reputation – valuable art disappeared from under his curation.
In the present day, art historian Keira Foley is recruited by Emory Scott to investigate a portrait of Queen Victoria at his friend’s estate in Suffolk. Wyatt Stevens who invades her treasured library. Especially not the quiet and kindly Capt. With the refugee children she’s hosting and her beekeeping, Amelia doesn’t need any distractions. In 1944, young widow Amelia Woods is appalled when swaggering Yankee flyboys are quartered at her Framlingham home. However, she recognizes her fiancé immediately – ten years earlier she’d sketched the man’s countenance moments before he murdered her father. In 1843, Elizabeth Meade’s mother arranges her marriage to the handsome Viscount Huxley.of Parham Hill Estate.
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