The Painted Castle contains multiple love stories and multiple mysteries. Kristy Cambron does this seamlessly with three separate but related timelines, and fills her novels with realistic characters that you can’t help but love. It continues with the same format as the previous two books, following the stories of three women in separate time periods, all connected by a single significant location.Īs a confirmed historical fiction lover, I adore time slip novels for the way they bring past and present together. The Painted Castle is the third installment in Kristy Cambron’s Lost Castle series. Thanks to TLC Book Tours for sending me a copy to review! All thoughts and opinions are my own.Īre you an art buff? I’m not, but that didn’t stop me from thoroughly enjoying this novel. This post contains affiliate links, which means I might make some extra coffee money at no extra expense to you if you buy something through one of my links. Set in three time periods-the rapid change of Victorian England, the peak of England’s home-front tensions at the end of WWII, and modern day- The Painted Castle unfolds a story of heartache and hope and unlocks secrets lost for generations just waiting to be found. and one in particular vying for a space in Amelia’s long-shut up heart.
She is determined the children in her care will remain untouched by the war, but the task is proving difficult with officers taking up every square inch of their world. She’s determined to avenge her father’s brutal murder-even if it means a betrothal to the very man she believes committed the crime.Ī century later, Amelia Woods-a World War II widow who has turned Parham Hill and its beloved library into a boarding school for refugee children-receives military orders to house a troop of American pilots. However, Elizabeth’s real motive for being at Parham Hill has nothing to do with art or marriage.
In Victorian England, talented sketch artist Elizabeth Meade is engaged to Viscount Huxley, then owner of Parham Hill.
Could this lost painting of Queen Victoria be a duplicate of the original Winterhalter masterpiece, and if so, who is the artist?Īs Keira begins to unravel the mystery behind the portrait, two women emerge from the estate’s forgotten past. But from the time she arrives at Parham Hill Estate and begins working alongside rumored art thief Emory Scott, she’s left with far more questions than answers. When art historian Keira Foley is hired to authenticate a painting at a centuries-old East Suffolk manor, she hopes this is just the thing to get her career and life back on track.
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