Elena Voss restores paintings for a living — she’s spent her career learning to spot the tiny tells that separate a real masterwork from a beautiful lie. When Marcus Webb brings her a forged landscape and asks her to “clean it, no questions,” she falls for him anyway, three weeks into a restoration that’s really a slow unraveling. She discovers a second forgery in his bag — one that matches a painting reported stolen — and learns Marcus comes from a family of forgers. Then a phone call reveals the real threat: Julian, Marcus’s twin brother, a forger skilled enough to fool even Elena, who’s been using Marcus’s identity as cover for a much larger scheme. As a detective closes in and Elena’s own history with a past betrayal resurfaces, she’s pulled into authenticating a piece for a black-market sale she doesn’t yet understand — forced to decide how much of what Marcus has shown her is real, and how much is varnish over something else entirely.