
THE MASTERPIECE
- Horror
- Thriller
- Crime Fiction
To the art world, Aries Kepler is a visionary. His paintings command millions, collectors compete for his work, and critics insist there is something almost unnervingly alive beneath his brushstrokes. They have no idea how right they are. Behind the celebrated artist is a meticulous killer with a secret hidden inside his paintings: the blood of his victims. For years, fame, wealth, and reputation have made Aries nearly untouchable. Then he kills Mara Serrin. Soon, impossible things begin happening. Details in finished paintings change. Figures seem to move when no one is watching. Someone is entering spaces no one could have entered—and someone knows things only the dead should know. Aries is certain there must be a living person behind it. A witness. A blackmailer. An investigator. Someone who has discovered what he has done. So he begins hunting them. But as a detective follows an emerging trail of disappearances and Aries grows desperate to recover paintings he once willingly sold, the carefully controlled world he built begins to fracture. Sleep becomes impossible. His own studio no longer feels safe. And the masterpieces that made him famous seem to be watching him. Aries Kepler spent years turning other people's terror into art. Now one of his victims intends to show him what it feels like to become the subject.


