Boston painter Claire Roth has survived financially by painting reproductions. Influential gallery owner Aiden Markel arrives with a bizarre proposal: her own show if she will forge a copy of a Degas, one of the pictures stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. As she works, Claire and Aiden become lovers, but she doesn't tell him about her discovery that the stolen Degas is itself a copy.
The art aspect was interesting, particularly the bits about Degas (I loved [b:The Painted Girls|16138688|The Painted Girls|Cathy Marie Buchanan|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1352484200s/16138688.jpg|18151238] last year and this was a nice continuation of what I learned in that book). But there was something missing here for me. I didn’t like the romance; I thought it was overdone and frankly, unbelievable. And everything was wrapped up much too neatly at the end. I enjoyed reading this but I think it will be forgettable—just one of those “ho-hum” books that is squarely in the middle of neither good nor bad.
