LUST IN A CANVAS
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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.
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