birds of crime

Sanko, a bright young painter struggling to make ends meet, is offered an opportunity that could erase her debts. Her task seems simple: restore a century-old portrait of Preshati Elhm Garde, the forgotten Duchess of Garden and one of history's most infamous diplomats.

But as the painting begins to reveal details long hidden beneath its surface, Sanko uncovers traces of a past that refuses to stay buried. The deeper she investigates the woman the world taught her to despise, the more she realizes that history itself may have been forged by a crime a hundred years in the making.