The Painter's Daydream Before Oblivion

Lucie Nightingale, a healer and painter, fills her lonely days with pictures of places she has never visited while she remains trapped under her drunken father's roof and made to work in his run-down tourist shop.

Freedom, she believes, belongs to the travelers who come and go, not to her.

Finn Vega, a cynical fighter and secret government operative, has stayed alive by running from his past and from anyone he might care about, certain that affection only creates a target.

An unplanned night in that quiet shop brings him face to face with Lucie, and the rules he lives by start to give way.

Hidden meetings and guarded conversations deepen into a bond neither of them wants to leave, though each is keeping a dark secret and both her father and his work will resist any escape.

As danger closes in, they must choose whether to turn from love and run, or remain and fight for a life neither has ever risked dreaming of.