Dépaysement

Evelyn was forcibly sold into a count’s household, living under the contempt and deception of a husband old enough to be her father. The only world she was allowed was within the canvas—nothing more than the square frame of her paintings. Then one day, into the life she had spent hiding in her studio—her only refuge— came an uninvited guest who never should have crossed that threshold. Jay—the son brought in by her husband’s mistress, who brazenly roamed the estate. From the very boy she should have despised the most, Evelyn feels, for the first time in her life, her heart race hot and red. At last, unable to resist her growing curiosity, she captures Jay on her canvas— only to be caught by him as she secretly watches. “That painting… is that really how you see me?” It was both an invitation to ruin, and the first outstretched hand of salvation she had ever known.