The Artist

Everyone wants Maddie Black to paint again-especially Maddie.She's putting herself back together after a scandal in New York City's art world drives her away from a stalled career and the only home she's known. The perfect escape is to an old Queen Anne Victorian she inherited in Juniper Knot, Colorado. Her plan is simple: Fix up the house. Sell it. Get back to painting. Make a new plan.Two months in, though, she's made little progress and she's feeling tweaked and tense and not...
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Everyone wants Maddie Black to paint again-especially Maddie.She's putting herself back together after a scandal in New York City's art world drives her away from a stalled career and the only home she's known. The perfect escape is to an old Queen Anne Victorian she inherited in Juniper Knot, Colorado. Her plan is simple: Fix up the house. Sell it. Get back to painting. Make a new plan.Two months in, though, she's made little progress and she's feeling tweaked and tense and not herself. She finds a squatter in the guesthouse and a visitor in her bed. She sees shadows, hears laughter and voices, has dreams that aren't dreams, and struggles with past demons and present forces that stop her cold.She shares the old house with Ophelia Winslow and Catherine Flynn, lovers murdered long ago by Ophelia's husband, and the dead duo are hell-bent on being reunited, with Maddie's help. When their desires threaten to destroy Maddie's efforts to reclaim her creative burn, they all bare their unrelenting wills and test the fragility and power of the veil that divides and unites them.