Clara Montgomery
Listen to The Invisible Fortune by Clara Montgomery as a bilingual audiobook with synchronized read-along text in English and Czech.
Eleanor Vance possessed a mind like a labyrinthine archive, meticulously organized yet prone to profound shadows. When an unexpected windfall of cash arrived following the sale of her grandmothers literary estate, her innate paranoia immediately flared. Banks, she reasoned with characteristic eccentricity, were mere ephemeral constructs vulnerable to catastrophic institutional collapse. Thus, she resolved to safeguard her newfound fortune within the familiar sanctuary of her sprawling, Victorian townhouse. Initially, her methods were modest and predictably uninspired. She slipped a crisp stack of high-denomination notes between the gilded pages of a first-edition atlas. Another envelope vanished behind the false back of a mahogany spice cabinet in the pantry. However, as the days wore on, these elementary hiding places struck her as dangerously pedestrian. A casual burglar could easily stumble upon such rudimentary cache sites during a routine ransacking. Her anxiety demanded a far more sophisticated strategy of dissimulation. She began to view every architectural quirk of her historic residence through the prism of covert storage.