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Eighteen-year-old pencil artist Elizabeth Rhodes is on the cusp of a breakthrough art commission that could cement her future career: the debut of her drawings at L'étoile dans les Ténèbres, the social calendar's biggest art auction hosted by renowned art collector and gracious philanthropist Madame Penelope Garcon. Concealing her true identity as the mysterious artist Briar Rose-whose name and fame she inherited at the deathbed request of her beloved Aunt-Elizabeth decides to accept the terms her dapper and elderly benefactor Sterling Figgleston negotiates for the debut of Briar Rose's new series, Hearts. But when the mental illness she's been hiding threatens to expose her charade to the boy she's loved since childhood, and with her estranged parents slated to make an appearance at L'étoile dans les Ténèbres, will Elizabeth find the courage to break the curse and open her heart, or will she lose her one chance at true love by revealing her heart's darkest secrets?
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Dear reader, You are more than a reader. When you read my words we enter a story together. Your history, my past. Your precious time, my open hands. For that's all an on my stories can be, an offering. Part of me, to part of you. My heart on display in the truest sense, my every word in black and white. Amazing, what colours emerge where there were none! And it isn't an escape, not for either of us. We'll go beyond. Face the darkness to find the light. Unafraid of the fear, braver. To courage! And loyalty! And to love, always love and tea and Starlight, all the joy that hope for more can be. Because we both know there's more to our favourite stories than beautiful words and epic adventure. There's value in the journey, once we've made it. And like such stories, YOU are worth it. Worth every prayer, every word, every plots twist, every moment. For you, dear reader, are loved.
