The Portrait

A bail skip with a two-million-dollar secret in his coat closet.<BR>A dead painter who kept nothing on the record - and everything in a letter she hid where she was certain no one would look.<BR>Two people looking for the same painting. Neither one owns it.<BR>When financial advisor Richard Aldous skips bail after his Ponzi scheme collapses, bounty hunter Lane Lamore expects a straightforward recovery. What she finds instead is a portrait insured for two million dollars, painted by a quietly celebrated Denver artist who never once let it into her own catalog - and a grandson in Aspen who's spent his whole life looking at a grandfather's face that never told him the truth.<BR>The trail runs from a Larimer Street art dealer with soft hands and a complicated conscience, to a cabin on the Green River, where Richard would rather bleed out than let the painting go.<BR>What Lane uncovers isn't just a fraud case. It's a love story eighty years overdue - one woman's decision to hide everything she felt, and what that silence cost everyone who came after.<BR>THE PORTRAIT is Book 7 in the Lane Lamore thriller series - a Colorado-set mystery about art, inheritance, and the difference between what we choose to say and what we let stay hidden forever.