A young artist, Jenny Kidd, attends a masked ball in Venice and meets the seductive Caterina Barbon and her brother, Sebastiano.
While spending autumn in Venice, a young American artist, Jenny Kidd, hopes to create a portfolio of paintings to launch her career and establish her independence from her tyrannical father. At the Guggenheim Collection, she encounters a colorful British woman, Randi, who impetuously invites her to a masked ball at the Palazzo Barbon. There, she meets the seductive Caterina Barbon and her brother, Sebastiano, who entice Jenny into a world of glittering façades that cloak sexual perversion, art forgery, and murder.
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Jenny Kidd stood at arm’s length from the Vasily Kandinksy painting, “White Cross.” She had an overwhelming urge to rotate it, so the upside down “3s” were righted, just to satisfy her visual curiosity. Sometimes she felt the same way about her life. If only she could examine it at a distance, turn its orientation, and set off in another direction. That wish had prompted her trip to Venice, a destination her grandmother had said was an enchanted place for artists.
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