nA sophisticated and urbane novel with a swanky, dapper European setting ... You'll want to reread it as soon as you get to the last page. n―André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Namen nAdrian Weynfeldt is an art expert in an international auction house, a bachelor in his mid-fifties living in a grand Zurich apartment filled with costly paintings and antiques. Always correct and well-mannered, he's given up on love until one night--entirely out of character for him--Weynfeldt decides to take home a ravishing but unaccountable young woman.

The next morning, he finds her outside on his balcony threatening to jump. Weynfeldt talks her down and soon finds himself falling for this damaged but alluring beauty and his buttoned-up existence comes unraveled. As their two lives become entangled, Weynfeldt gets embroiled in an art forgery scheme that threatens to destroy everything he and his prominent family have stood for.

This refined page-turner moves behind elegant bourgeois facades into darker recesses of the heart.n nReading group guide is available from New Vessel Press.n n