Shortlisted for the Seventh Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writers Prize in Mystery.
I'll let you in on a secret: the entire city of Edinburgh thinks I'm a mysterious underground artist named Black Iris who destroys her paintings live on the internet, but that is not who I am. I'm Juliet Morrissey: a scared, desperate nobody who is secretly squatting in a friend's flat while he's away so that I can give every penny I earn from my dead-end job to my drug-addict brother.
My brother and I need to leave this city before it kills us, and I have a plan to get us the money we need—and then some. My painting is finished, the buyer is set. All I have to do is make the sale and we'll be out of here with a small fortune in our pockets. Easy, right? Well, yes ... until my idiot brother ruins everything.
After a brutal attack leaves me scarred inside and out, I'm left with seventy-two hours to fix my brother's mess before my one and only shot at salvation goes up in smoke. My brother is handcuffed to a bathtub, a private investigator is tailing me, and I can't lie without having a panic attack, but hey, no pressure. The countdown is on.
