While on a trip to Rome, Italy, nineteen-year-old Lavinia Melrose visits the museum of her dreams, clueless that the intriguing famous painting she sets her eyes on will cause a monumental turn in her life. In time, she realizes why the masterpiece struck her so hard. One touch of that painting, and she's somewhere she never imagined, leaving everything and everyone she's ever known behind. The face she has tried to escape is now right in front of her, and she has no desire to let him slip away since they've met. He'll forever be instilled in her mind. In The Art of Time by Quinn Jamison, we find danger and excitement in Lavinia's story. Simultaneously a sweet romance and a thrilling adventure, the tender moments are worth shedding a few tears.