The Mark of the Artist

Art has power.

Sebastian Albright is realizing how to wield that power...on the other side of the painting.

The Artist's paintings are beautiful, enchanting, and ever so real. Churning blue waves crashing on a rocky shore-so real you can hear the waves. To his father and stepmother, Sebastian is nothing more than a road to wealth and fame.

Anna, the strange and beautiful servant in her patched yellow dress, sent away for rumors she was a traveling gypsy, and for getting too close to Sebastian. Only Anna knew what Sebastian's art meant to him. She had been the person who saw through his temper and fa蓷de and saw the Artist for who he truly was. And now she was gone.

Sebastian attempts to escape his old life and broken heart in a city near the sea with his best friend, James-a good man with secrets of his own. Instead, Sebastian encounters a silver-haired old man calling himself Argento. This man's own paintings are masterful and eerie, hinting at something more than just beauty and truth. Argento convinces Sebastian not to deny who he is-an Artist.

With the encouragement of his mysterious mentor, Sebastian creates a mystical masterpiece-a castle in the moonlight, blue and haunting, with a flag on the tower bearing a harlequin pattern of red, white, and black. And in the tower window is a woman: Anna, the one who had stolen the Artist's heart.

Is Anna really in danger, held prisoner by a madman known as the Harlequin Man, as Argento tries to convince them? Is Sebastian ready to embrace his talents and create a way to get to her-on the other side of the painting?