Portrait of a Sunset

By Jessica Scott Romano

What would you do if you lost the one person who meant everything to you?

For aspiring artist Clara Halpert, life is full of color and vivacity - until her older sister Charlotte is brutally murdered. Clara's once-bright future is quickly fading to grey...

...until she meets Casey Linderman.

Like Clara, Casey has his own dark secrets and terrible regrets to live with, but that doesn't stop him from making Clara feel something she hasn't for a long time: hope.

No matter how hard Clara and Casey try to move on, however, they can never completely outrun the pasts that still haunt them. While Clara's traumatic memories and overwhelming anxiety threaten to drown her, Casey's dark history manifests itself in a much more corporeal, much more lethal way.

Can these two broken people find a way to become whole again? Or will opening themselves up to one another only manage to hurt them more?

Romance Tropes:
Tortured heroine/Tortured hero
Bad boy x good girl
First love
Mental health issues (PTSD, anxiety, depression)
Scarred hero
Touch her and die

Previously published as Portrait of a Sunset: A Novel by Jessica A. Scott]

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1957211385
• ISBN13: 9781957211381
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Tuxtails Publishing, LLC
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"