The Portrait

A bail skip with a two-million-dollar secret in his coat closet.
A dead painter who kept nothing on the record - and everything in a letter she hid where she was certain no one would look.
Two people looking for the same painting. Neither one owns it.
When financial advisor Richard Aldous skips bail after his Ponzi scheme collapses, bounty hunter Lane Lamore expects a straightforward recovery. What she finds instead is a portrait insured for two million dollars, painted by a quietly celebrated Denver artist who never once let it into her own catalog - and a grandson in Aspen who's spent his whole life looking at a grandfather's face that never told him the truth.
The trail runs from a Larimer Street art dealer with soft hands and a complicated conscience, to a cabin on the Green River, where Richard would rather bleed out than let the painting go.
What Lane uncovers isn't just a fraud case. It's a love story eighty years overdue - one woman's decision to hide everything she felt, and what that silence cost everyone who came after.
THE PORTRAIT is Book 7 in the Lane Lamore thriller series - a Colorado-set mystery about art, inheritance, and the difference between what we choose to say and what we let stay hidden forever.