Not since Oscar Wilde's fascinating novel of Dorian Gray's obsession with immortality in the Portrait of Dorian Gray has a reader been asked to consider an artist's work as just more than a painting.The author links the 'magical' number 4 to the passions of 2 main characters that embody everything good and evil in mankind.This story of the age-old battle for the souls of mankind is given an entirely new twist. Even the ending leaves the reader wondering at the final outcome. An exciting novel and hopefully the first of many more.