The Canvas of Silence

Elara Vance was the art world’s brightest prodigy until the night she was found holding a gun over her mentor’s body, and for three years she spoke to no one and painted only in black, but when a mysterious benefactor pulls her from the asylum and demands beauty, she answers with a single violent line of red that unravels a canvas of lies connecting a locked room, a riverbank grave, and a fire that never burned, and as a sharp-tongued nurse and a disgraced detective dig into her silence, every brushstroke reveals another crime and the last secret might kill them all in this psychological thriller about art, obsession, and the terrible price of truth.