ery expert, Emma Kelly, has her suspicions about all the sleepers showing up in the art market. Someone is amassing a fortune, but to what end? When she witnesses the murder of a renowned artist in a Washington, DC museum, and her husband, FBI Assistant Director in Charge, Elliott Baldwin, discharges his weapon in public to save her life, they are drawn into investigating a forgery ring.

In the exciting second installment of the Big Picture Trilogy, The Canvas, the body count rises, culminating in a terror attack outside the walls of the Vatican. Emma unmasks her foe, but he's only getting started. 

How long can she protect the greatest collection of art the world has ever known and her double life?