Natalie Lindstrom has finally left the underworld behind for a new career in the art world. But theres one world she cant escape: the Other world of the dead. As a former Violet, an elite crime-fighter with the power to channel murder victims, Natalie is now using her paranormal gift to summon the spirits of legendary painters. But shes about to discover how far some people will go to keep their hold on herand others like her. Evan Markham, her ex-lover-turned-Violet-Killer, has escaped from prison. And hes been made an offer he cant refuse: Natalie. But first he must help contact a deceased geneticist whose most intriguing experiment was brutally interrupted: an attempt to manufacture Violets. To protect her young daughter and herself, Natalie must search for the scientists only living test subjecta handsome but tortured artist to whom she is dangerously attracted. For he is caught in the grip of two opposing forces, one that wants his survival, another that wants himand anyone connected with himdestroyed.From the Paperback edition.