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A seaside town. A vanished woman. A portrait that refuses to stay silent. When art restorer Clara Wren is summoned to the coastal village of Seabright Cove to restore a long-forgotten portrait, she expects cracked varnish and fading pigment-not secrets etched beneath the surface. The painting's subject, Evangeline Grey, was a glamorous socialite who disappeared thirty years earlier, leaving behind whispers, rivalries, and unanswered questions. As Clara peels back layers of paint, she uncovers a hidden code that ties Evangeline's disappearance to a web of old grudges and dangerous truths the town would rather keep buried. With her loyal golden retriever Jasper and the enigmatic former lighthouse keeper Silas as allies, Clara is drawn deeper into Seabright Cove's shadowed past-one marked by secret rooms, coded symbols, forbidden relationships, and a powerful group determined to protect its legacy at any cost. When a modern-day murder mirrors Evangeline's fate, Clara realizes the past isn't finished claiming victims-and that restoring the portrait may expose a truth worth killing for. Atmospheric, suspenseful, and rich with coastal mystery, The Portrait of Evangeline Grey blends art, history, and danger into a gripping whodunit where every brushstroke matters and every secret has a price.

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Maisie Thorne is a mid-career author known for her charming cozy mysteries with a touch of historical intrigue. Her novels are celebrated for their strong female leads, atmospheric settings, and intricate plots. Before turning to fiction writing, Maisie worked as a history teacher and continues to draw inspiration from her love of the past and her deep appreciation for small-town life. She lives in Willowbrook, Vermont, with her watchmaker husband, their opinionated tabby cat Thistle, and a vast collection of antique clocks. Her previous novel, A Stitch in Crime, follows seaside embroiderer Marnie Swift as she unravels the chilling secrets hidden in an antique quilt mysteriously linked to unsolved disappearances in the town's haunted past. Her next book, Murder in the Moonflower Garden, introduces herbalist Addie Green, who must decode a cryptic will and uncover the truth behind her mentor's suspicious death in a garden teeming with deadly secrets and botanical intrigue. Whether set in sleepy villages or shadowed flowerbeds, Maisie's novels reveal that no town is too quaint for a good mystery-and no heroine too ordinary to solve it.

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