In 1471, in a workshop above the streets of Florence, a boy watches his grandfather paint something that should not exist.

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Benedetto da Vinci has spent his life perfecting a secret no guild will teach and no priest will bless. Certain pigments, ground from things buried in unconsecrated ground, can hold more than light and shadow. They can hold a presence. They can paint a cage.

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Young Leonardo has always believed his grandfather's portraits were simply beautiful. Then one of them begins to wake. As the entity behind the final brushstroke stirs against the bars of its painted prison, the boy learns the first and cruelest lesson of the keepers: every painting is a promise, and every promise has a price.

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Grandfather's Pigments is the prequel to The Painted Souls, a Renaissance supernatural thriller series that reimagines Leonardo da Vinci as a hunter of things that wear human faces, a keeper of portraits that are not portraits, and the painter of a smile that has held something terrible for five hundred years.

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For readers of dark historical fiction, gothic horror, and stories where the brushstrokes bleed.

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Read it slow. Read it at night. Trust nothing in the corners.

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Grandfather's Pigments

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