There is a way of looking at a painting we call raking light: you take a single lamp and you lower it almost flat to the surface, so the light skims across the canvas instead of facing it, and suddenly everything the painting has been hiding from straight-on looking throws a shadow. Old repairs. Pressed-down cracks. The ghost of a signature scraped off. The little hills and valleys of every lie a surface ever told. A painting can look flawless head-on and confess its entire secret history...

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.