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Enter the world of Renaissance Venice where the competition for fame and fortune can mean life or death

Artists flock here not just for wealth and fame but for revolutionary color Yet artist Giorgione ZorzoBarbarellis career hangs in the balance Competition is fierce and his debts are piling up When Zorzo hears a rumor of a mysterious new pigment brought to Venice by the richest man in Europe he sets out to acquire the color and secure his name in history

Winning a commission to paint a portrait of the mans wife Sybille Zorzo thinks he has found a way into the merchants favor Instead he finds himself caught up in a conspiracy that stretches across Europe and a marriage coming apart inside one of the floating citys most illustrious palazzi

As the water levels rise and the plague creeps ever closer an increasingly desperate Zorzo isnt sure whom he can trust Will Sybille prove to be the key to Zorzos success or the reason for his downfall

Atmospheric and suspenseful and filled with the famous artists of the eraThe Color Stormis an intoxicating story of art and ambition love and obsession