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An accomplished artist, Suz moves with her child across the country to California’s central coast, and lands a job restoring priceless art for the historic Hearst Castle overlooking the sea. But even dreams have shocking twists.

Peter and Rebecca Harris have settled into a comfortable mid-life—with their careers as an art dealer and editor, respectively, blossoming and their daughter in college—until Rebecca’s brother with a history of drug problems shows up and makes Peter question his life.

Leaving New York City behind for the summer to pursue her passion for painting in Edilean’s tightly knit artistic community, Jecca Layton is swept off her feet by the town’s handsome doctor and they both must make a difficult decision when the summer ends.

The Rescue Artist is a rollicking narrative that carries readers deep inside the art underworld—and introduces them to a large and colorful cast of titled aristocrats, intrepid investigators, and thick-necked thugs. But most compelling of all is Charley Hill himself, a complicated mix of brilliance, foolhardiness, and charm whose hunt for a purloined treasure would either cap an illustrious career or be the fiasco that would haunt him forever.

Chronicles the emotional war between Irene America, a beautiful, introspective woman of Native American ancestry, struggling to finish her dissertation while raising three children, and her husband Gil, a painter whose reputation is built on a series of now iconic portraits of Irene.

When Rona Parish is commissioned to write a biography of artist Elspeth Wilding, who disappeared months earlier, by the artist’s concerned sister, Rona discovers that Wilding’s closest friend committed suicide shortly after having an argument with her.

It is August 1944 and Paris is on the cusp of liberation. As the soldiers of the Third Reich flee the Allied advance, they ravage the country, stealing countless pieces of art. Hermann Göring will stop at nothing to claim the most valuable one of all, the Mona Lisa. Can Swiss OSS agents Gabi Mueller and Eric Hofstadler rescue DaVinci’s masterpiece before it falls into German hands?

Taking readers back in time to 1888 Glasgow during the world-famous International Exhibition, elderly Harriet Baxter reminisces about her friendship with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist who took his own life at the age of 36, never having achieved the fame and recognition she believes he deserved.

Lacey Yeager takes New York City’s art world by storm, charming men and women, old and young, rich and even richer with her magnetic charisma and liveliness and experiencing the highs and lows of the art world from the late 1990s into the present day.

Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston PI Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen.

After failing to stop a suicide bomber attack in London, master art restorer and assassin Gabriel Allon is summoned by the CIA and is faced with an organization riddled with dissent—and ill-equipped to deal with the deadly new face of global jihadist terror.

Owner of a struggling art gallery and newly separated from her boyfriend, Francesca Thayer does the math and then the unimaginable. She puts out an advertisement for boarders, and soon her Greenwich Village house becomes a whole new world.

A kaleidoscopic tale follows the experiences of seven women models from different historical periods, the artists for whom they sit, the factors that shape the creations of their portraits, and the ties that connect them to each other.

Commissioned to paint several portraits, including those of an older woman with a wartime secret, a politician with a confession to make, a discontented Frenchwomen, and her sister’s fiancé, artist Ella Graham comes to realize that there is much more to a person’s life than what can be seen on the surface. But as she works on her paintings, she finds that she is learning as much about herself as she is her portrait subjects.