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[Previously published as Portrait of a A Novel by Jessica A. Scott] What would you do if you lost the one person who meant everything to you? For aspiring artist Clara Halpert, life is full of color and vivacity – until her older sister Charlotte is brutally murdered. Clara’s once-bright future is quickly fading to grey… ...until she meets Casey Linderman. Like Clara, Casey has his own dark secrets and terrible regrets to live with, but that doesn’t stop him from making Clara feel something she hasn’t for a long hope. No matter how hard Clara and Casey try to move on, however, they can never completely outrun the pasts that still haunt them. While Clara’s traumatic memories and overwhelming anxiety threaten to drown her, Casey’s dark history manifests itself in a much more corporeal, much more lethal way. Can these two broken people find a way to become whole again? Or will opening themselves up to one another only manage to hurt them more?