The Actor's Mask

Theo Nash is starting to believe she can manage her life as an antique appraiser and powerful psychometrist, especially with her new protector, Gavin Hayes. But when the local theater director, Oscar Lowell, brings in a magnificent, antique Venetian mask, Theo's fragile calm breaks. The moment she touches it, she's plunged into a vision of betrayal: a historical actress poisoned by a masked assailant. The mask's aura of paralyzing shame and secrecy quickly infects Theo, making her paranoid and unable to trust Gavin with the full truth about her clues. When a nosy journalist publicly airs suspicions about Theo and Gavin, putting Gavin on temporary police suspension, their investigation is forced underground. The present-day crime—the theft of valuable backstage blueprints—escalates rapidly. Theo realizes the mask's power is actively concealing the modern thief's identity and location. Battling a debilitating sickness and her own mind, Theo must use her last remaining clue—a vision of a hidden trapdoor—to find the stolen property and unmask Oscar Lowell. But to truly save the theater and herself, she must risk one final, fatal touch and destroy the antique, or the curse will forever bind her to its secret shame.