Andrea Kugy

Vanya, a brilliant forensic psychologist, is investigating a string of elite women gone missing across Europe. Her search for truth ends in chains, kidnapped by Damian Volkov, the most dangerous mafia boss in Russia.
But he doesn't want her dead. He wants her broken, bent, and bound to him.
Damian knows her true identity: the daughter of the man who destroyed his family. She was meant to be his revenge.
Until she became his obsession.
And maybe… the only person who could save him from himself.

When a picture-perfect marriage shatters after the death of their son, Aveline’s life turns into muted colors and empty canvases. Her husband, Adrian, once her muse and anchor, becomes a stranger. Distant, cold, and drowning in secrets she can’t name.
Then comes Ezra. A quiet, charming art student with a haunting gaze and rumors clinging to his name. They say he was involved in the mysterious death of his teacher. But in his silence, Aveline finds something dangerously alive. The warmth, the attention, the raw emotion she thought she had lost forever.
As their connection deepens, so do the cracks in her perfect facade. Ezra’s eyes feel too familiar. Adrian’s sudden obsession with the boy feels too strange.
And when the brushstrokes of truth begin to emerge, Aveline realizes she’s trapped in a masterpiece of deceit. Painted by the man she married, and colored by the boy who might destroy them both.
Love. Guilt. Obsession.
Some secrets aren’t buried in words, they’re painted in the way someone looks at you.