A sexy, cozy mystery. Hidden within a collection of masterpieces is the key to a reclusive artists’ murder and to the dark secret he’d been keeping since he was a boy. Nate Parks is a struggling artist in New York City. It has been five years since he’d heard from his boyhood friend and fellow artist Peter Caruso and he’s shocked when he learns of Peter’s murder. He’s even more shocked at the collection of brilliant and previously unseen masterpieces that were found at the crime scene. As he deals with a beautiful and wealthy but conniving woman whose portrait he’s been hired to paint, Nate begins to believe that Peter’s murder was not just another random shooting. With the help of an attractive art investigator who is dealing with her own problems, Nate begins to investigate Peter’s past and makes a startling discovery. Driven as much by curiosity as by a need to bring Peter’s killer to justice, Nate returns to the small town outside of Scranton where he and Peter grew up. But, what he finds there only deepens the mystery, darkening the past of the Peter he thought he knew and putting his own life in danger. He finds himself embroiled in a high publicity murder investigation as well as in a tricky, no-win game of sexual deception. The Caruso Collection tells the story of two brilliantly creative men who grew up in rural Pennsylvania. One of them was driven by a love of art; the other by an inner demon capable of deeds both great and terrible. Lightly humorous at times, the story deals with the moral confusions of everyday life and with the tragedies that sometimes result from actions taken with the best of intentions.