Bella was sixteen when she discovered the truth: for the last decade, she'd been lost in a book. The neighborhood she'd lived in had been a fiction, as had her neighbors, her school, and her friends. All characters and places in a magical book that she and her grandfather had lost themselves in, to escape a man called the Collector. The same man who murdered her mother...and will stop at nothing to kill her and her grandpa. Bella soon learns that in the real world, art is truly magical...and that she must learn to paint if she ever wants to stand a chance at stopping the Collector. For anything Bella paints can be brought to life, and the more creative she is, the more powerful she will become. Now Bella must fight back against the Collector, using the power of the magical arts to defeat him. If she fails, she and everyone she cares about will die...and the fate of art itself will hang in the balance!