The Weight Of Touch

Some objects remember.
This one has been waiting for her.

Dr. Rowan Southeil has built her career on evidence-pigment, provenance, brushstroke, age. She trusts what can be tested, documented, and proved.

Then an unidentified Tudor painting arrives at her Boston laboratory.

The moment Rowan reaches for it, the painting reaches back.

Her instruments reveal nothing impossible. But when she begins tracing the panel's history, records vanish from archives, files disappear from her own protected system, and a celebrated scholar seems to know far more about the painting-and Rowan-than he should.

The trail leads to England, a monastery erased from history, twelve hidden keeper lines, and a promise guarded for nearly five centuries.

Now the people helping Rowan are in danger, and someone is determined to possess what the painting has protected for generations.

To uncover the truth, Rowan must decide whether to trust the evidence before her-or the gift she has spent a lifetime refusing to name.

The Weight of Touch is an atmospheric art-history thriller filled with buried secrets, vanished records, and a mystery that refuses to remain in the past.

Perfect for readers of Katy Hays, B. A. Shapiro, Peng Shepherd, Elizabeth Kostova, and Kate Mosse.