The Whispering Portrait: A Haunting Unveiled in Oil and Shadows (The Hawthorne Legacy Book 1)

The Whispering Portrait

When Clara Hawthorne inherits her grandmother’s crumbling estate, she also inherits the last painting Evelyn Hawthorne ever touched, a portrait that should be still… but whispers her name in the dark.

Initially, Clara dismisses it as a trick of her grief. But the voice grows louder. And the woman in the painting—who looks disturbingly like Clara—starts to change.

As Clara digs into her family’s cursed legacy, she uncovers a trail of buried secrets, vanished artists, and a gallery of portraits that should never have been painted. Each one tells a story. Each one hides a soul. And one of them is about to claim hers.

In this gothic horror mystery, where art bleeds memory and silence hides screams, Clara must confront the truth behind her grandmother’s final masterpiece before it consumes her.