Dernière sortie
Grandfather's Pigments
The face opens its eyes before he finishes painting them. Milan, 1497. Leonardo da Vinci has spent fourteen months unable to finish the face of Judas in The Last Supper. The plaster keeps moving. The pigment dries wrong. And something on the far side of the wall is learning to use his own voice. Then a locked wooden box arrives from Vinci, sealed thirty years ago by his grandfather Antonio, the man the family called mad.
Inside are seven pots of pigment that should not exist, a half-finished portrait of a woman with the wrong smile, and a journal that explains why every keeper before him is dead. Certain colours, ground from things buried in unconsecrated ground, can hold more than light and shadow. They can hold a presence. They can paint a cage. She has been waiting in the dark far longer than Leonardo has been alive.
She has read his notebooks. She is offering to finish his masterpiece. And he is about to learn the first and cruelest lesson of the keepers: every painting is a promise, and every promise has a price. Grandfather's Pigments is the prequel to The Painted Souls, a Renaissance supernatural thriller series that reimagines Leonardo da Vinci as a hunter of things that wear human faces, a keeper of portraits that are not portraits, and the painter of a smile that has held something terrible for five hundred years. For readers of dark historical fiction, gothic horror, and stories where the brushstrokes bleed. Read it slow.
Read it at night. Trust nothing in the corners.
Inside are seven pots of pigment that should not exist, a half-finished portrait of a woman with the wrong smile, and a journal that explains why every keeper before him is dead. Certain colours, ground from things buried in unconsecrated ground, can hold more than light and shadow. They can hold a presence. They can paint a cage. She has been waiting in the dark far longer than Leonardo has been alive.
She has read his notebooks. She is offering to finish his masterpiece. And he is about to learn the first and cruelest lesson of the keepers: every painting is a promise, and every promise has a price. Grandfather's Pigments is the prequel to The Painted Souls, a Renaissance supernatural thriller series that reimagines Leonardo da Vinci as a hunter of things that wear human faces, a keeper of portraits that are not portraits, and the painter of a smile that has held something terrible for five hundred years. For readers of dark historical fiction, gothic horror, and stories where the brushstrokes bleed. Read it slow.
Read it at night. Trust nothing in the corners.
