The Art of War

Art school student Elizabeth has no idea that her passion for drawing is bringing her closer discovering a hidden world. One of magic, wealth, and a secret society of artists dating as far back as the renaissance.

The Art Institute's collection, like most prized art at modern museums, contains magic. Magic that has been protected and hidden away for centuries. When Elizabeth's drawings begin to come to life, her life is turned upside down as she discovers a secret school within her normal University that trains artists to master their powers.

Mesmerized by her new classmates and the world of old wealth she's stumbled into, she doesn't realize the consequences being able to imagine things into existence until cracks start to show in her perfect new fairtytale life.

This complex, slow-build story follows a teenage art student and her friends as they navigate the very grown-up world of fine art, where rare enchanted works are killed for and sold for millions. Filled with powerful adult enemies, including a misogynistic bank executive and his private security, Elizabeth must unravel the truth of the collection before she loses her friends, her scholarship, even her power itself.