Later that night, Myra is ambushed and quasi-blackmailed by the governor’s wife to do the impossible: paint Will, her deceased youngest son, back to life.

But this is a novel so, of course, someone notices! It’s so small she’s sure no one will notice. The magic heals a tiny cut on the dog’s leg when Myra paints his injury away on the canvas. The Governor of Lalverton is a man known for his utter hatred of Prodigies, but Myra’s magic just can’t control itself while she’s painting the small dog. Myra’s luck gets worse when the Governor’s wife walks into the art studio Myra’s employed at and demands a painting of her dog. Myra, left alone as the sole caretaker to her chronically ill 13-year-old sister, works her fingers to the bone in an art studio, hiding her magic, just to keep a roof over their head. But after a stranger started asking too many questions, Myra’s mother went missing, and her father disappeared as well in the search to find his wife.

Myra knew another Prodigy besides herself, and that woman was her mother. It’s so rare, so infrequently passed on, that it’s almost the stuff of legend. Unfortunately, where she lives, being a Prodigy is a dangerous thing to be. Myra is a Prodigy a person who wields magic through the power of a paintbrush. Olson, Myra Whitlock doesn’t have to wonder, she knows. What would you do if you had the ability to change your physical features through the power of art? To even paint someone well again? In A Forgery of Roses by Jessica S. Review of A Forgery of Roses by Jessica S.

A forgery of rose