She inspired him. The portrait revealed it.
Chase "CJ" Johnstone has spent seven years promising his best friend that nothing will ever change between them. Then a girl with violet eyes sits down at his boardwalk easel, and he paints the portrait that makes his career.
Cali has never known where she came from. When CJ's first Manhattan show puts her face in front of the whole city, one very important guest takes a long look at the canvas and goes pale.
Now family secrets are surfacing, loyalties are tested, and the line CJ swore he'd never cross is closer than he thinks. Some people fall in love in a single night. Others take a lifetime to see who has been standing beside them all along.