{ "item_title" : "A Canvas of Death", "item_author" : [" Eric Cyr "], "item_description" : "A masterpiece can preserve a face for centuries. But what if the price of that perfection is paid in human lives?When Eleanor Fairchild, an accomplished art conservator, accepts an unusually lucrative commission at the isolated Blackwell Manor, she expects to restore a monumental seventeenth-century family portrait. The enormous canvas, known as The Dynasty of Blackwood, has remained hidden from public records for generations. Its aged varnish, damaged paint, and mysterious provenance promise a challenging but potentially career-saving assignment. For Eleanor, whose deteriorating wrist threatens to end her profession, the generous payment offers a chance to reclaim her future.But the painting is not an ordinary masterpiece.During her examination, Eleanor discovers that the central patriarch, Dorian Blackwell, appears untouched by centuries of aging. His painted face has no cracks, no deterioration, and no evidence of the artistic revisions visible everywhere else on the canvas. Even more disturbing, touching the painting mysteriously restores Eleanor's damaged wrist, giving her a physical vitality she believed she had permanently lost.As she investigates the portrait's extraordinary construction, Eleanor uncovers evidence of generations of alterations, forbidden experiments, and a hidden history that the Blackwell family has carefully concealed. The figures surrounding Dorian are not simply members of a long-dead dynasty. Their changing appearances reveal the horrifying consequences of an ancient process designed to preserve one man at the expense of others.The deeper Eleanor goes, the more she realizes that her commission was never about conservation. The portrait is an instrument of supernatural exchange, and its dormant power has begun to awaken. Her employer, Rowan Lancaster, knows far more than he admits, while the mysterious records left by a previous conservator reveal that Eleanor is following a path that has already destroyed another life.Now the canvas is changing, its painted inhabitants becoming increasingly disturbing as the mechanism behind their existence approaches completion. Eleanor must understand the portrait's terrible purpose before she becomes its next permanent addition.A Canvas of Death is a chilling gothic horror novel about artistic obsession, forbidden immortality, inherited secrets, and the terrifying cost of trying to escape time. For readers who love sinister estates, cursed masterpieces, dark alchemy, and supernatural mysteries, this is an unsettling journey into a work of art that does not merely depict the dead-it feeds on the living.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/818/302/9798183020106_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "21.99", "online_price" : "21.99", "our_price" : "21.99", "club_price" : "21.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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