The Restoration

Bol

Sienna Rossi restores old masters for a living. She knows how to find the truth underneath the varnish. She is considerably less skilled at finding it in the man who signs her payslips. Julian Vance runs The Vault — a private London gallery where the security is biometric, the Caravaggio may or may not be genuine, and the dress code is unstated but absolute. He is precise, controlled, and the most infuriating person Sienna has ever had to impress. Neither of them is on a voice app called Vocal. Not professionally. Not under their real names. And absolutely not talking to each other. For six months, Sienna has been leaving late-night recordings for a stranger she calls Dear Friend — someone warm, honest, and nothing like her employer. For six months, Julian has been listening to a woman called Klara, whose voice he recognised in the third message and whose name he has never said aloud. When a forgery investigation forces them into the same basement archive at two in the morning, the distance between who they are at work and who they are in the dark begins, quietly and irreversibly, to close. A slow-burn London romance about honest light, dishonest paintings, and two people who know each other better than they should.

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Pagina's: 204, Paperback, Independently published