The Young Madonna

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Aspiring artist, Mary Elle McGann, has a haunting encounter with the young Madonna she recreates on canvas and suddenly finds herself the toast of Paris. Delighted with her newfound fame and fortune, she stumbles into a reckless affair with a wealthy Parisian collector, and into an increasingly disturbing mystery about source of her newfound fame.

Perched atop the glittery heights of the international art scene, to Mary Elle it seems as though she’s fallen between the pages of a fairytale where all her dreams are suddenly impossibly within her reach. She’s sought after, feted, and acclaimed as the next great American artist.
Too late, Mary Elle is reminded that all fairytales have a dark side.
In over her head, and unsure who she can trust, she pursues the answers to the growing mystery confronting her across Europe to the Holy Lands, and finally to Rome where the darkness she fears turns to violence.
Terrified, Mary Elle is forced to make a choice between continuing her work or retreating to the safety of her former, ordinary life. She needs to uncover the truth and soon. Is her art truly a miraculous gift? Or is it a dangerous curse that threatens her very life?