The Portrait Kindle Edition

Available for a limited time! This is one of four Gothic short stories from a collection. The full four book collection will be releasing in October 2026.Grace buys a neglected manor despite warnings, hoping its quiet decay will give her a fresh start. In the dusty parlor, above the fireplace mantle, she finds a portrait of Henry James Maxwell—a man whose gaze feels unsettlingly alive.She soon learns the truth: Henry is cursed to exist inside the painting, able to step into the world for only a few short nights every twenty years. And Grace has arrived on the very night his century‑old imprisonment briefly breaks.Their connection is immediate and consuming, but dawn drags Henry back into the canvas, leaving Grace desperate to free him from a curse she barely understands. When he vanishes entirely, she’s left grieving a love suspended between worlds.The Portrait is a gothic romance steeped in supernatural intrigue, exploring love that defies time and the courage it takes to release what we cannot hold Read more