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Gina M. Engman is a newly self-published indie author who enjoys a classic novel, adventure stories, sci-fi, fantasy, children’s books, coffee, and a good laugh. Her favorite book of all time is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Her debut novel is The Mark of the Artist, and she plans to dust off some other stories she’s had in a drawer. In her spare time she’s a marketing communications writer. Gina lives in the Sacramento, California area with her husband and two children.
The Mark of the Artist
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Blurb: Art has power, and Sebastian Albright is only just realizing how to wield that power.
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Sebastian Albright is an Artist whose paintings are beautiful, enchanting, and ever so real. Churning blue waves crashing on a rocky shore—so real you can smell the salt. But to his father and stepmother Sebastian is nothing more than a road to wealth and fame. Then there’s Anna, the strange and beautiful servant of Albright manor, sent away for rumors she was a traveling gypsy, and for getting too close to Sebastian. Only Anna knew what his art meant to him. She had been the person who saw through his temper and façade and saw the Artist for who he was. And now she was gone. Sebastian attempts to escape his old life and broken heart in a city near the sea with his best friend, James. Instead, he encounters a silver-haired old man calling himself Argento. His own paintings are masterful and eerie, hinting at something more than just beauty and truth. Argento convinces Sebastian not to deny who he is—an Artist. With the encouragement of his mysterious mentor, Sebastian creates a mystical masterpiece—a castle in the moonlight, blue and haunting, with a flag on the tower bearing a harlequin pattern of red, white, and black. And in the tower window is a woman: Anna, the one who had stolen the Artist’s heart. Is Anna really in danger, held prisoner by a madman known as the Harlequin Man, as Argento tries to convince them? Is Sebastian ready to embrace his talents and create a way to get to her—on the other side of the painting?