She reads paintings. He reads people.
Nell Sayer is an art authenticator hired for a seventy-two-hour job at a Boston estate. Private collection. Simple contract.
The door locks from the outside.
He is calm. Controlled. He never threatens her. He just pays attention, the kind of attention that makes her feel seen in places she has never shown anyone.
Nell knows she is being studied.
She doesn't know that by the time she understands why, she won't want to leave.