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Julia Conley inherits a house from an unknown great-aunt and goes back to England for the first time since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six While sorting through the house she discovers a painting hidden in an old wardrobe and a window onto the houses history begins to open When Imogen Granthams much older husband hires a young artist to paint her portrait none can guess what the hands of fate have set in motion
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Lauren Willig is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Pink Carnation series and several stand alone works of historical fiction, including "The Ashford Affair", "That Summer", "The Other Daughter", and "The Forgotten Room" (co-written with Karen White and Beatriz Williams) . Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages, awarded the RITA, Booksellers Best and Golden Leaf awards, and chosen for the American Library Association's annual list of the best genre fiction. After graduating from Yale University, she embarked on a PhD in English History at Harvard before leaving academia to acquire a JD at Harvard Law while authoring her "Pink Carnation" series of Napoleonic-set novels. She lives in New York City, where she now writes full time.