A Lovely Illusion (Hardcover)

True love is like a work of art... Erica Pencarreth is the daughter of a famous painter of the St lves group, and she desperately wants to follow her mother's footsteps. But at the age of twenty, she realises she just doesn't have what it takes. Now, in her early thirties, Erica is a well-respected name in the art world, not as a painter but as an expert on the Impressionists. So when her sophisticated lover Willard Townley, the owner of a hugely successful commercial London gallery, shows her one particular painting, she just can't belleve her - or his - luck. It is anything but luck, though, that has led Willard Townley to this unknown Monet. And Erica, although at first happy to authenticate the provenance of the painting, soon realises that a frightening money-making swindle is taking place. What's worse is that the honest-to-goodness Erica seems to be falling for the rough-and-ready New Zealander Willard is hoping to deceive...