Painter of the Heavens

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Painter of the Heavens is a story that covers wide territory, geographical and emotional. The subtitle is "A Novel of Crime and the Heart." 

This is no police procedural; it is a literary journey into the psyches of our two main characters. Painter of the Heavens is the story of a newly divorced young woman, in transition in her life, who strays into the orbit of a charismatic con artist. He's not just an emotionally manipulative guy, though he is every bit of that. He is plotting a major historical forgery scheme that he hopes will net him millions. 
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She doesn't know any of this as she begins dating him. And we don't know if the inscrutable Lyle is bad news for Penny, or only for the victims of his ambitious, outrageous scam. How bad is this bad guy? Will he mean disaster, maybe death, for Penny? Or is this a crook with a capacity for actually loving someone? He needs an accomplice for his peculiar enterprise, and his eyes have turned to Penny. 

 You're going to find dark intrigue and surprises, humor and heartbreak, and two of what Dickens called "lives of quiet desperation" when you read my debut novel, Painter of the Heavens. Check out Bart Stewart's eclectic blog at http://www.BartStewart.com.

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