The Phantom Painter

Things are seldom what they seem

When Chicago heiress and art connoisseur Eleanor Ashford pays a small fortune for a newly surfaced Gainsborough at auction, she expects a masterpiece—not a scandal. But when the painting is revealed to be a forgery, her anger turns into a mission. She hires Jet Rider, a former Navy SEAL turned private investigator, to trace the deception to its source.

Jet’s search leads him through a web of falsified provenance and backdoor deals, ultimately pointing to Lena Carter—a brilliant, undiscovered artist living in New York’s underground scene, whose imitations are so flawless they fooled even the best.

Tensions escalates as a body surfaces, Jet must protect Lena from more than just legal trouble. Because someone with far more brutal methods has taken notice— Eleanor’s forgery isn’t the only one and in the underworld of fine art, revenge is always in style.