内容简介：
Bernie Thompson, a divorcA(c)e living in Leawood, Kansas, had always loved portrait painting and longed to find a teacher who would help cultivate her natural talent. Her dream finally came true when she found such a teacher. When Bernie's aunt calls from Huntington Beach, California, to commission a portrait of herself to give to her daughter as a birthday present, Bernie is eager to accept. Her life takes an unexpected turn when her aunt calls soon after the project is complete to tell Bernie about a man who had noticed the portrait while it was being framed at a local shop. It is his wish that she return to California to paint a portrait of his daughter, a young lady who had been murdered months before. This is the story of Bernie's struggle to paint a portrait of a girl she had never seen for a man she didn't know.