DELUXE LIMITED EDITION features red sprayed edges a reversible jacket that readers can color
in and make their own and endpapers featuring two more paintings from the book! Available for
a limited time while supplies last. From award-winning and USA Today bestselling author
Kosoko Jackson comes his adult speculative debut a stand-alone novel blending time travel and
globe-hopping adventure art history and dark fantasy about magical paintings and the lengths
people will go to collect them destroy them…or be destroyed. A picture is worth a thousand
nightmares. Art has always been an escape for struggling painter Lewis Dixon. But other than
his mom who has recently passed away no one has ever praised his work. If he is being honest
there’s really no one in his life. So he is shocked when the British Museum shows an unusual
interest in his art. This is his chance to show the world what he’s capable of…he just has no
idea that he might also be saving the world at the same time. As Lewis soon learns he has not
been invited to participate in a curated show but rather a test: to see if the fugue-like
exhilaration he experiences when painting is actually magic a power that allows him to enter
nine very special paintings—paintings made by his great-grandfather. Spread across the globe
these paintings have unbelievable eldritch abilities…and not necessarily beneficial ones. In
terms of power these are the most valuable works of art in the world and there are those out
there who would do anything to possess just one. And Lewis upon passing the test has been
asked to destroy them all. Partnered with an alluring agent in museum’s employ Noah Rao Lewis
must travel to Japan Australia Nigeria—and the past—plunging himself into a world of black
markets gothic magic ancient history and cursed objects to save those unlucky enough to call
any of the paintings their own—or to free the world from those who would misuse the power of
the paintings. In doing so he will need to discover if he has what it takes to truly be an
artist the confidence to finally open himself up to someone who could give his lonely life
meaning and the strength to enter and navigate a reality where magic is everywhere.
