Some women can’t be erased from history…A story about love and madness, of obsession and revenge.Paris, 1938: a mysterious studio fire kills runaway heiress artist Juliette Willoughby and destroys her surrealist masterpiece Self Portrait as Sphinx.Cambridge, 1991: two art history students make a discovery that threatens to expose the Willoughby family and will change the course of their lives forever.Dubai, present day: an art dealer is accused of murdering his oldest friend just as the Willoughby secrets are about to be uncovered.Three suspicious deaths over the course of a century.Is the key to unlocking them all hidden in Juliette Willoughby’s lost masterpiece?

Ellery Lloyd is the pseudonym for London-based husband-and-wife writing team Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos.Collette is a journalist and editor, the former content director of Elle (UK) and editorial director at Soho House. She has written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and the Sunday Times.Paul is the author of two previous novels, Welcome to the Working Week and Every Day is Like Sunday. He is the program director for English Literature with Creative Writing at the University of Surrey.