About this book
She came to restore a portrait. Then she saw her missing mother's face on another woman. Twenty-four years after Cora Beaumont disappeared, her daughter Willa returns to Hollowmere House with a dead uncle's letter and a commission nobody will explain. The wealthy family wants a damaged portrait ready for its anniversary reception. The silent woman serving tea wants Willa to notice the scar on her hand. Behind locked doors, portraits keep more than appearances. A name can be painted out. A voice can be closed beneath a brushstroke. And people who lend too much of themselves can spend decades standing in a room nobody truly sees. With a local engineer searching for his own missing sister, Willa begins uncovering the first accounts beneath the family's beautiful collection. But returning what was stolen will take more than exposing a villain. She must find the original names, hear the people who were silenced, and refuse an offer that would give her everything she came for at someone else's cost. A complete, atmospheric gothic mystery about stolen identity, a mother and daughter separated by a house of lies, and the difficult freedom of becoming visible again. AI-generated