When a retiring diplomat is murdered and his private art collection vanishes on a lonely Austrian highway, Doctor Genevieve Lenard and her team are thrust into a high-stakes investigation. What appears to be a tragedy soon reveals itself as a calculated strike against the heart of Europe's intelligence community.
Fighting through layers of deception and high-tech subterfuge, Genevieve realises that the missing paintings are not the prize—they are the keys. The theft is merely the opening move in a sinister conspiracy, and the stolen art holds the only way to stop it.
Genevieve must navigate a deadly path between the analogue world of 18th-century masterpieces and the digital shadows of modern cyber-warfare, solving a puzzle painted centuries ago to prevent a catastrophe that threatens to plunge the continent into chaos.
Estelle Ryan was born in South Africa and spent her childhood surrounded by African beauty, nature and diversity of cultures. Her first trip to Europe at the tender age of 16 transformed her world into a much larger place, endless in its possibilities and places to explore. For most of her adulthood, she's travelled all over the world, lived on a few continents, explored numerous cultures and is insatiable in the quest to still the hunger for more life experiences.