Painted Lady

by Donna Baker, Pippa Sparkes (Narrator)

Felicity Grant is Managing Director of Grant Holdings, and with Stallymore Castle as her headquarters and home, she's used to being sure of every decision she makes. She commissions Jake Ashton to paint a portrait of the Board, but for no reason she can fathom, he gets under her skin in a way no one else has. Then her father is taken ill, at the same time as news breaks of a spy in Grant Holdings. Felicity's place as MD is in doubt - can she regain the trust of the Board whilst discovering who is determined to take over her position? "Baker provides genuine insights into her appealing characters' psyches and behaviour" BOOKLIST

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First published January 5, 2000

About the author

aka Nicola West, Lilian Harry,

Donna Thomson was born in Gosport, near Portsmouth Harbour, England, UK. Growing up during the terrifying years of the Blitz in a two-up, two-down terraced house, the youngest of four, she aspired to be a writer from an early age.

As a young woman she worked in the Civil Service and moved to Devon to be near her sailor husband. They had a son and a daughter. When the marriage ended, she and her two children moved to the Midlands, where she happily married again to her second husband. After living in the Lake District for twelve years, she finally moved back to Devon, and now lives in a village on the edge of Dartmoor. She lost her son Philip in 2008, and has two grandchildren. A keen walker and animal-lover, she now has a dog and three ginger cats to keep her busy, along with a wide range of hobbies she enjoys.

She started signing her romance novels as Donna Baker and Nicola West, now she also writes as Lilian Harry (inspired by the first names of her grandparents). Among her works are historical novels, romances and even two books giving advice on how to write short stories and novels.