While on a trip to Rome, Italy, nineteen-year-old Lavinia Melrose visits the museum of her dreams, clueless that the intriguing famous painting she sets her eyes on will cause a monumental turn in her life. In time, she realizes why the masterpiece struck her so hard. One touch of that painting, and she's somewhere she never imagined, leaving everything and everyone she's ever known behind. The face she has tried to escape is now...