‘Think The Secret History meets Saltburn’ – Holly Watt, author of The Dead Line 'Intoxicating, enthralling, compelling' – Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange ‘Bold and ambitious and consuming from start to finish’ – Louise Candlish, author of The Swimming Pool 'A stunning, intricately plotted and clever mystery’ – Claire Douglas, author of The Wrong Sister ******** Some women can’t be erased from history . . . A story of love and madness, of obsession and revenge. Paris, 1938: Runaway heiress Juliette Willoughby perishes, with her married lover, in an accidental studio fire alongside her Surrealist masterpiece, Self-Portrait as Sphinx. Cambridge, 1991: Two art history students stumble across proof something sinister was at play in Juliette's death, threatening to expose the long-buried secrets of the artist's aristocratic family. Dubai, now: An art dealer is accused of the brutal murder of his oldest friend – the last surviving member of the Willoughby dynasty. Three suspicious