When art collides with politics, anything can happen in Julia Gabriel's Drawing Lessons—an intensely sexy new contemporary romance. The estranged young wife of a Senator ... Thirty-year-old Marie Witherspoon has spent her entire life as an accessory to other people's political careers—first her father's, then her husband's. But when her senator-husband dumps her for his mistress, Marie is left to build a new life that has nothing to do with politics or campaigns or keeping up appearances. She begins three months of drawing lessons hoping to learn how to see herself in a new light ... with a teacher who insists that not all seeing is done with the eyes. A dark and brooding French artist ... The last time Luc Marchand got involved with a student, things ended badly. So badly that he's remained unattached ever since. He's been warned about his beautiful new student and her powerful family—but the more he sees her, the more powerless he becomes to resist her. An artistic collaboration ... When the senator calls off the divorce to bolster his re-election prospects, Marie hatches a plan to gain her freedom once and for all. But Luc has a few secrets of his own ... secrets that ignite a high-stakes political scandal neither Luc nor Marie see coming. As the noose of her former life tightens around her, Marie will have to find the strength to escape Washington—without walking away from the only man who truly sees her.