A Matter Of Record

She has never once been wrong about a forgery. She was wrong about the man who asked her to sign one.

Sloane Calloway reads paperwork the way other people read faces - she feels the lie in a provenance file before she can name it. It's why Merriam's auction house trusted her with its records. It's why, one cold night in the strongroom, the man she loved needed her signature more than he needed the truth.

She gives it to him. The picture sells for a fortune. Eleven days later, a rival firm measures the crate the sale can't survive - and there's only one name on the file.

Hers.

No trial. No accusation. Just a whisper that empties every room she walks into, and a man who never once told her not to sign, standing in the warm light while she walks out into the cold alone.

She rebuilds with nothing but a forty-dollar desk and the one thing no one can take - she still knows how to find the truth in the part of the file nobody bothers to keep. And somewhere out there, the person who built the lie that destroyed her is still waiting to be found.

Perfect for readers of B.A. Shapiro's The Art Forger, Dominic Smith's The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient.