Ars Amandi - Chiaroscuro

Bianca Prescott is supposed to be in Boston, studying medicine.
Instead, she's in Venice, enrolled at the Fine Arts Academy, following the ghost of the mother she lost while outrunning the shadow of the father she lied to.
One scholarship, one lie an ocean wide, and only a few months to prove the gamble was worth it.
The lie won't hold that long, because art has a bad habit of revealing things (the artist most of all).

Bianca came to Venice to follow her mother's path; she didn't expect to find her whole self along the way, or for that self to collide with two men she never saw coming.

There's Zeno Falier, heir to one of the city's most powerful art dynasties: golden, charming, untouchable, the boy everyone admires from a distance. He's spent his whole life playing the part his name demands, so perfectly that even his art has learned to wear the mask. Bianca might be the first person he's ever let close enough to touch what's underneath.

There's Damian Wells, the Academy's sharpest eye: he reads everyone at a glance, his critiques can end a career in a sentence, and he looks at Bianca's talent the way other men would look at her body.
She might be the first person who makes him look twice.

And then there's Caravaggio: the masked street artist whose illegal murals appear on Venice's walls overnight and vanish by morning, whose identity is the city's favorite mystery. Bianca becomes obsessed with him, and the obsession leads her to a secret society of artists waging an underground war on the art establishment.
They want her technique, she wants what they have: a purpose, and neither side is being entirely honest about the cost.
In Venice, everyone is hiding something, from others or from themselves.

A slow-burn new adult art academia romance featuring secret identities, forbidden love, underground art, found family, push-and-pull tension, and a love triangle that refuses to stay inside the lines.