Matilda's Secret

The Inheritance, Book 2

By: Corina Bomann, Michael Meigs - translator

Narrated by: Nina Yndis

In pre-WWII Sweden, fate and secrets change an impetuous young woman’s life in a novel of deception, true love, and reinvention by the bestselling author of The Inheritance of Lion Hall.

Sweden, 1931. Matilda Wallin has a future in Stockholm: business college, then establishing a company with the young man she plans to marry. It’s all upended by her mother’s death—and a stranger who has been appointed her guardian. Matilda has no idea who Countess Agneta Lejongård is or why this aristocrat has taken an interest in her. Agneta summons Matilda to live with her and her family on their magnificent country estate but remains mysterious about her connection to Matilda. Torn from her previous life and its promises, Matilda has no choice but to follow Agneta to venerated Lion Hall.

At first resistant to rural aristocratic life, Matilda tries to adjust. In Agneta’s son Ingmar, Matilda finds a new friend. In Ingmar’s twin brother, Magnus, she finds a churl who dismisses her as an interloper beneath his family’s stature. But just as the estate and Agneta’s benevolence win Matilda’s heart, she discovers the secret that ties her to the Lejongårds in ways she never imagined, which could change her life once again. Now, Matilda must make a decision: return to Stockholm and the commitments of her heart or take a risk on the unknown at Lion Hall.

©2018 Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH, Berlin. (P)2022 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Translation © 2022 by Michael Meigs.

Critic reviews

“…well written, thought-provoking, and full of intrigue and mystery.”—Library Journal (starred review)

Matilda's Secret by Corona Bomann

A well written and captivating book. I loved listening to it. I would recommend reading/ listening to. Thank-you.