Five hundred years ago, a painting was saved from a fire.
Now people are killing for it.
Florence, 1492. The night before the Bonfire of the Vanities, Botticelli's assistant risks everything to rescue a painting his master condemned to burn-a portrait painted in vermilion mixed with the artist's own blood.
It survives five centuries.
In Denver, two women are found murdered-posed, wrists bound, a fragment of Dante's Inferno left beneath each body.
Mary Collier has spent a lifetime reading people.
At ninety-one, she's seen everything.
Except this.
The victims are connected by a painting that shouldn't exist.
A lost Botticelli.
Hidden for five hundred years.
Buried beneath a forged history-and worth enough to start a war.
But the deeper Mary digs, the worse it becomes.
The evidence doesn't point to one killer.
It points to two.
A man and a woman.
Both leaving DNA.
Both impossible to find.
And at the center of it all is a man she trusted.
A colleague with no past anyone has ever been able to verify.
From Florence to Rome to Denver, Mary follows a trail that spans five centuries-toward a truth powerful enough to destroy everything built to protect it.
Because some things aren't meant to survive.
And some never die.
For fans of Daniel Silva, Steve Berry, and Lisa Gardner.
DUALITY is Book Eight in the A Path of Deception and Betrayal series.
