Chapter 4 - The Woman in the PhotographEvelyn noticed an enormous portrait hanging above the ballroom fireplace.
Her mother.
Young Eleanor Vale stood beside the first Solmere hotel, smiling with the fearless confidence of a woman who had built something no one believed she could build.
Evelyn's chest tightened.
She hadn't seen that photograph in years.
Memories came rushing back.
Her mother's perfume.
Her warm hands.
The sound of her laughter.
And the night Eleanor disappeared.
Evelyn had spent years believing she had been abandoned.
Now she wondered whether she had been lied to.
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Because Eleanor had left behind more than an inheritance.
She had left behind a secret.
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