Brilliant art thief Merrick Davidson can steal anything, except Grant Silvan’s heart. Merrick has to keep Grant at arm’s length for fear of revealing his secret. When Merrick’s biggest rival exposes his secret to Grant, the rejected lover returns to win back his relationship with Merrick, but there are obstacles to overcome.<br><br>Wyatt Silvan, Grant’s father and Merrick’s employer, is after the famous seven Xanderclied paintings, which all contain clues to a treasure. If Merrick succeeds in obtaining all the paintings and find the treasure, he can retire as an art thief and start a normal, uncomplicated life with Grant.<br><br>Together, they hunt the paintings from art galleries to private collections, from city to city, dodging bullets and escaping from life threatening attacks. With danger all around and the FBI on their tails, will Wyatt and Merrick find the paintings and treasure they are looking for? Will Merrick realize love is the biggest treasure of it all, before it is too late?

Merrick the Art Thief

He looked at the two walls and thought about his own family. Did his parents still have his photo hanging around, or had he been erased?


The memory of Grant’s graduation was a better one, so he clung to it as he stepped into the living room. A tan suede sofa faced a dark green one with a square wooden coffee table in-between them. Ahead of Merrick was a fireplace with his favorite painting hanging above it. Done in the style of Monet, it showed a field with four Holstein cows in the foreground. In the background, a silver saucer hovered over a cow that was lifted off the ground, trapped in its beam.


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