Twelve years ago, Lily vanished into a haunting painting, a cursed masterpiece hidden in her family's Vermont mansion. Inside, she has grown into a dangerously alluring woman, her beauty magnified by years of solitude and longing. When Ethan-a stoic young man bound by duty and scarred by loss-moves into the same house, strange whispers, vivid, sensual and intoxicating dreams draw him to the painting. There, he discovers Lily: mesmerizing, untouchable, and desperate for human contact. Ethan's icy exterior begins to crack under her spell, but as their bond deepens, he's faced with a choice-save Lily and risk his soul, or resist her pull and leave her trapped forever. In this house, love and desire might be as deadly as the curse itself.