
When Imogen receives the news that she has inherited the crumbling mansion belonging to the late renowned artist, Dorothea Rowe, she is shocked. Apart from spending one summer as a teenager in Dorothea’s house, Imogen barely knew the reclusive elderly lady. As Imogen begins to look into Dorothea’s past, she finds more questions than answers. There’s the stacks of letters that reveal the dark side of her first marriage, and the grotesque life-sized models in the basement – Dorothea’s final project – that someone is determined to stop from being revealed to the public. Imogen soon realises that Dorothea’s sudden death might not be an accident and, if she wants to discover the truth, she risks exposing her own secrets, as well as Dorothea’s…
Author

Claire Douglas always wanted to write novels and, after many years of trying to get published, her dream came true when she won the Marie Claire Debut Novel Award in 2013 with THE SISTERS. Her second and third novels, LOCAL GIRL MISSING and LAST SEEN ALIVE (Penguin), are Sunday Times bestsellers.