THE VANISHING AT BLACKTHORN COVE: Every painting hides a truth. This one murder.

When art restorer Elena Marsh inherits a crumbling cliff-top manor from the great-aunt she never knew, she expects nothing more than dust and a distant view of the sea. Instead, she finds a hidden studio beneath the floorboards, a collection of forged masterpieces, a self-portrait encoded with secrets, and the thirty-year-old mystery of a woman who walked along the Devon coastal path one September evening and was never seen again.Vivienne Blackthorn was brilliant, passionate, and dangerous to the wrong people. She had dedicated her life to resurrecting the lost works of women painters erased by history - but someone turned her art into a criminal empire, and when she tried to expose the truth, she vanished.Now Elena, together with a haunted local detective named James Calloway, must decode the clues Vivienne left behind - hidden in paintings, buried in walls, and guarded by a man who has been living in the manor's secret rooms for three decades. As the investigation draws them deeper into a web of forgery, corruption, and buried violence, Elena and James find themselves falling into something neither of them expected: a love as stubborn and undeniable as the truth itself.But the people who silenced Vivienne are still watching. And some secrets, once uncovered, demand a price.

Pagina's: 190, Paperback, Independently published