The Painted Castle Audiobook (Free)

A shed painting of Queen Victoria.

A library bricked off from the world.

And three women, separated by period, whose lives are irrevocably changed.

When art historian Keira Foley is employed to authenticate a painting at a centuries-old East Suffolk manor, she hopes this is just the thing to obtain her profession and life back again on the right track. But from the time she finds Parham Hill Estate and begins functioning alongside rumored artwork thief Emory Scott, she’s remaining with a lot more queries than answers. Could this about The Decorated Castle lost painting of Queen Victoria be considered a duplicate of the initial Winterhalter masterpiece, and if so, who’s the artist?

As Keira starts to unravel the secret behind the family portrait, two females emerge from the estate’s forgotten recent. In Victorian Britain, talented sketch designer Elizabeth Meade is usually involved to Viscount Huxley, after that owner of Parham Hill. Nevertheless, Elizabeth’s real purpose to be at Parham Hill provides nothing to do with art or marriage. She’s determined to avenge her father’s brutal murder-even if it means a betrothal to the very man she believes committed the criminal offense.

A century afterwards, Amelia Woods-a World War II widow that has turned Parham Hill and its own beloved library into a boarding school for refugee children-receives military orders to accommodate a troop of American pilots. She is determined the children in her treatment will stay untouched from the war, however the job is proving tough with officers taking on every square inches of their globe . and one in particular vying for an area in Amelia’s long-shut up center.

Set in three time periods-the rapid transformation of Victorian Britain, the maximum of England’s home-front tensions at the end of WWII, and modern day-The Painted Castle unfolds a tale of heartache and wish and unlocks secrets shed for generations just waiting to be found.

Praise for The Painted Castle:

“A gripping story of secrets hidden behind the walls of a historical British castle.” -KATE BRESLIN, bestselling writer of Much Side of the Sea