With a beautiful rival who’s better connected and better trained than she is, Adélaïde faces an uphill battle. Her love affair with her young instructor in oil painting gives rise to suspicions that he touches up her work, and her decision to make much-needed money by executing erotic pastels threatens to create as many problems as it solves.
Diane-Lyn’s Synopsis: 1934: Connie Burroughs lives in Cedar Hall, an English orphanage run by her powerful, wealthy and well-respected father – Reverend Ezra Burroughs. The large dwelling is home to the Burroughs family, countless young orphans, and a plethora of dark secrets. When a mysterious baby arrives at the doorstep, an infant somehow familiar to […]
Beverly Armento grew up during the 1940s / 1950s; the eldest of four children. She spent her childhood caring for her blind mother – a selfish, mentally ill and abusive woman. Beatings, frequent moves, poverty, deplorable living conditions, an absent father and a mother’s paranoid delusions took center stage in Beverly’s life for decades.