When art conservator Alix London spots a forgery, she knows trouble will
follow. So she's understandably apprehensive when her connoisseur's eye
spots something off about a multimillion-dollar Jackson Pollock painting
at Palm Springs's Brethwaite Museum--her current employer.
Alix is already under fire, the object of a vicious online smear
campaign. Now the Brethwaite's despicable senior curator, obsessed with
the "maximization of monetized eyeballs," angrily refuses to
decommission the celebrated Pollock piece. But it's only when a hooded
intruder attacks Alix in her hotel room that the real trouble begins.
And when FBI Special Agent Ted Ellesworth--with whom Alix had
inadvertently, but thoroughly, botched a budding relationship just a
year prior--turns up to investigate the Pollock, Alix knows she's about
to have her hands full.
In her third mystery, Alix London must see through mirages in the desert
to uncover the knotted history of the painting--and save herself in the
process.