Heart Bender: Book one - Sangre de Christo mountain series
(Book)

Artist Millie Montgomery leaves Paris and a budding romance with Rik Hansson, a Swedish art history professor. She accepts a position as the Head Curator of Brantwood Art Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, but her career is compromised when she becomes the prime suspect in one of the largest art heists in history. Unbeknownst to Millie, Rik is an undercover agent for French Interpol and assigned to solve the heist of Picassos Pigeon and the Peas, valued at $28 million. Disguised as Professor Eberly Goldstein, Riks investigation leads him to Millie, and the Brantwood Museum believed to be a front for trafficking stolen art. Thrust into a dangerous web of international art crime, Millie discovers Riks deception. Betrayed, she hardens her heart against him. He fights to prove her innocence and bends her heart to forgiveness and love.