The past never ends—it echoes into the present

 The cologne found her first.

   Bergamot and sandalwood, expensive and deliberate.

   Her body remembered before her mind could stop it. A traitor's warmth, a ghost of something that had once felt like desire—before she learned what lived beneath the surface.

   She knew that scent. She had worked very hard to forget it...

When curator Emma Wilson encounters a man from her past at a museum gala, he brings more than unwanted memories. He brings a document suggesting a Renaissance masterpiece vanished during World War II—hidden deliberately, waiting to be found.

Now Emma must navigate archival secrets, wartime concealment, and a predator who believes money entitles him to anything he wants, including her... again.

But she was no longer the Emma he thought he knew.

Some paintings are worth more than fortunes. Some secrets outlast the men who buried them.

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