When Lacey Quinn inherits the striking landscapes painted by her late grandfather, she believes they are as good as anything hanging in museums today. Against her own family's wishes, she sets out to prove it. Lacey begins researching her grandfather's past--and is rocked almost immediately by a strange series of violent events. Someone wants to steal her inheritance, to reduce the paintings to ashes in a suspicious blaze. Someone wants to prevent Lacey from examining her grandfather's work too closely--by any means necessary. Ian Lapstrake, a security specialist currently employed by the appraisal house Rareties Unlimited, has taken an interest in Lacey's inheritance--and in her. Troubled by what he sees, he becomes Lacey's shadow, as her search for answers leads them both down an ever-darkening road.
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