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The Art of Vanishing
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 8 2025
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A reclusive artist is forced to weaponize her talent to lure her fugitive father into a deadly trap in this psychological thriller, the second installment of the Legacy of Lies Trilogy.
The canvas is blank. The gun is loaded. The choice is impossible.
Genevieve Carver has finally rebuilt her life. After years of mourning the father who died in a fiery car crash, and then mourning him again when her brother discovered he died running from gangsters, she has found peace. Her abstract paintings are selling, and her cavernous Portland studio-funded by the insurance settlement-is her sanctuary.
She believes the debts are paid. She believes her family is safe. She is wrong.
When Viktor, a ruthless fixer for a Russian oligarch, walks into her studio, he shatters her carefully constructed reality. He reveals that the settlement money was laundered. That her brother, Ethan, living happily in Seattle, is under constant sniper surveillance. And that her father, Raymond, is still alive, hiding deep in the underground of Southeast Asia.
Viktor offers Gen a devastating ultimatum: become an asset for the syndicate, or watch her brother's life be dismantled.
Her mission is bizarre and cruel. She must create a triptych of paintings imbued with secret, coded memories from her childhood-visual siren songs designed to bypass her father's paranoia and lure him out of hiding.
Whatever she paints on the canvas will determine who lives and who dies.
Plucked from her quiet life and dropped into the opulent, cutthroat art circuit of Singapore and Hanoi, Gen is forced to confront the seductive power of the world her father chose over his family. As she paints the trap for the man who abandoned her, Genevieve discovers a terrifying capacity for deceit within herself.
The forgery has begun. But in a world of high-stakes art crime, the hardest thing to fake is survival.
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