From award-winning and USA Today bestselling author Kosoko Jackson comes his adult fantasy debut, a standalone novel blending art history, time- and globe-hopping adventure, and dark horror and fantasy. It explores ten cursed paintings and the lengths people will go to collect them, destroy them… or be destroyed.

• A picture is worth a thousand nightmares.*

A struggling painter, Lewis Dixon, is shocked when the British Museum shows an unusual interest in his art. While he has always felt there is something powerful about what he puts on canvas, he has also felt there is something disturbing just beneath the surface — especially when he is compelled to paint a painting. The original is one of ten paintings his great-grandfather created over a hundred years ago. Only Lewis’s version is surreal… and maybe just a touch horrific.

Still, he accepts the invitation, only to discover that this is no curated show. Instead, he must prove that he has not only the magic necessary to enter the paintings, but also the strength to escape them. Because, unbeknownst to Lewis, there is power in his art, just as the ten paintings carry immense eldritch abilities and a terrible curse — making them, perhaps, the most valuable works of art in the world.

And Lewis has been asked to destroy them all.

Acting on orders from a mysterious museum official, Evangeline, and partnered with an alluring agent in her employ, Noah Rao, Lewis must plunge into a world of black markets, gothic magic, ancient history and unspeakable terror to save those unlucky enough to call any of the paintings their own. He must also hopefully locate the tenth painting in the series, long missing, whose powers are suspected to be the most devastating of all…