They are accustomed to choosing the pictures that people see. This time someone they love chooses the pose.
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A Chicago painter accepts four portrait commissions a year under one rule. The person who will live with the finished portrait gets the last sitting alone with the subject. Four wealthy families agree readily enough. It is the ex-wife, the estranged lover, the old friend or the woman who remembers the sitter before the fortune who makes that last hour dangerous.
Oscar’s mother wants a portrait. Oscar wants everyone to stop adjusting his shoulder. Greta, the woman he loved before the accident, asks him where he is comfortable and waits for an answer. The free companion novella is The Shirt Without the Crest.
A borrowed shirt inspires the last-sitting rule. Four portraits ask whether a lover can look at ambition, a changed face, a divided past and an old marriage with fresh eyes.
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Hal wants his portrait to show the man Doreen remembers. The shirt he brings has his family crest on the pocket. Doreen pulls out her unpicking scissors and asks when he last wore something he chose himself.
Oscar’s mother wants a portrait. Oscar wants everyone to stop adjusting his shoulder. Greta, the woman he loved before the accident, asks him where he is comfortable and waits for an answer.
Everyone agrees Yasmin has a good side. Laurie keeps moving the mirror until she can see the little frown he likes. Being looked at like that is the first reason she has found to return for sitting number two.
The family wants Ben to sit beside his absent twin’s charcoal portrait. Julian draws a second mouth before he realises he has given it Ben’s smile. Everybody in that room knows whose face he came to draw. Only Ben knows whose company he wants.
A portrait of Hector still hangs in Barbara’s hall. She has walked past it every day of their five-year separation. For their grandson’s birthday she agrees to sit for its companion. Hector asks for the last hour in person.
The first subject gives Pauline the sitter’s chair. Her next commission brings an ex-lover back into the studio.
Includes the author pitch, editable Authorythm seeds and individual AI-generated front-cover concepts. The planned fiction totals 250,000 words.
Buy the 4-book concept pack and receive the companion lead magnet concept free. Each novel is planned at 55,000 words. The lead magnet, The Shirt Without the Crest, is planned at 30,000 words.
Author pitch PDF with the series premise, characters, book blurbs and complete story arcs. One editable Authorythm seed document. 5 coordinated front-cover concepts.
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