The vivid hues in the painting captured her attention. Deep blue and green water seemed to move as if a breeze blew across it. She felt giddy and stepped closer. The air around her turned cold. A picture formed in her mind of the river flowing through a city, reflecting buildings in the waters below. That night the river from the painting invaded her dreams. She could feel the breeze. Lavender shadows lapped ever closer. She awoke with a start. Vermont artist Gina Martin had always been boringly rational but when she encounters an 18th century artist's painting at the Louvre she is drawn to P rigueux, the artist's home in southwestern France. There she finds herself tangled in a web with the artist, whose life eerily matches her own and the owner of the painting-a handsome French art gallery curator. Recurring dreams of murky shadows and death threaten her sanity and her life.