The Art of Capturing Light

Elara Vance spends her life removing the grime from other people's history, content to remain unseen in the museum's restoration archive. But when Nikolai Sokolov, a crime lord devoid of emotion, stumbles into her sanctuary, he sees the one thing he cannot live without. What begins as a lucrative commission to restore a mural becomes a terrifying descent into a gilded cage of obsession, where Elara must decide if she is a prisoner or a queen.