<p><b>Peeling back layers of lies could save a masterpiece or reveal a killer</b></p><p>After a long week lobbying on Capitol Hill all Karina Cardinal wants to do is chill with Netflix and her boyfriend Patrick Dunne. Instead she's slipping her aching feet into red stilettos for his parent's annual holiday bash. When she accidentally interrupts Patrick's father in his study her embarrassment is tempered by suspicion that Martin Dunne and his dapper secretive guest are hiding something. Maybe the painting she barely glimpses right before it disappears behind a secret panel.</p><p>An internet search raises her curiosity to full-blown alarm. If she's right Martin is in possession of a stolen masterpiece. Infamous because everyone close to it has turned up dead. As in Mafia-style-execution dead.</p><p>As she's chewing over which instinct to follow—back off while she still can or dig deeper for the truth—she crosses paths with FBI agent Mike Finnegan. An old friend and not-quite flame from her college days. When she looks into his warm mocha eyes she's tempted to tell him everything.</p><p>Trouble is she's already being watched. And the next move she makes could destroy innocent lives including her own.</p>
