The Collector's Tithe: A Da Vinci Supernatural Thriller
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The Mona Lisa was the cage. The collector has come for the man who built it.
Florence, 1503. Artists are vanishing behind shuttered doors, and the thing that wears Lisa del Giocondo's face is still whispering through the cracks of the world. Leonardo da Vinci, last keeper of his line, came home to fight one hunger. He finds a city being farmed.
Vincenzo de' Neroni survived the Black Death by making himself useful to the things that feed. For a century and a half he has been a cultivator: selecting the gifted, ripening their talent, delivering them to appetites older than Rome. His collection fills a palazzo in Venice. And he has decided that Leonardo, the one painter who ever built a cage instead of a feast, will be his masterpiece.
Book 2 of The Painted Souls: a Renaissance supernatural thriller with the historical depth of Dan Brown, the literary horror of Mexican Gothic, and the slow dread of Piranesi.
