She'll have to work with the rough and rusticated vineyard manager to keep the laborers content without pay and discover the key to finding her father's fortune-before someone else finds it first. It doesn't take long for a bevy of opportunists to flock to the estate under the guise of offering condolences. Tressa and her ailing mother are left with a mansion and an immense vineyard and no money to run it.

He kept his vast fortune hidden somewhere on his estate in the south of England and died suddenly, without telling anyone where he had concealed it. But can she uncover the truth about the mysterious woman she seeks? And is there anyone at Hurstwell she can trust with her suspicions? Fan-favorite Joanna Davidson Politano casts a delightful spell with this lyrical look into the nature of women's independence and artistic expression during the Victorian era-and now.ĭescription: Tressa Harlowe's father did not trust banks, but neither did he trust his greedy extended family. She hears music no one else does, receives strange missives with rose petals between the pages, and untangles far more than is safe for her to know. The longer she lingers in the deep shadows and forgotten towers at Hurstwell, the fuzzier the line between sanity and madness becomes.

The woman's portrait is shockingly familiar to Vivienne, so when the asylum claims she was never a patient there, Vivienne is compelled to discover what happened to the figure she remembers from childhood dreams. The woman is supposedly a patient at Hurstwell Asylum. Laced with mysteries large and small, this romantic Victorian-era tale of love lost, love deferred, and love found is sure to delight.ĭescription: When concert pianist Vivienne Mourdant's father dies, he leaves to her the care of an adult ward she knew nothing about. With plenty of enticing clues but few answers, Willa's search becomes even more complicated when she misplaces the letter and it passes from person to person in the house, each finding a thrilling or disheartening message in its words. Everyone at Crestwicke has feelings-mostly negative ones-about the man who wrote the letter, but he seems to have disappeared.

Compelled to find the passionate soul who penned it and the person who never received it, she takes a job as a nurse at the seaside estate of Crestwicke Manor. Description: Focused on a career in medicine and not on romance, Willa Duvall is thrown slightly off course during the summer of 1865 when she discovers a never-opened love letter in a crack of her old writing desk.

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