Eliana Kovács

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Eliana Kovács's humming a tune off-key while painting her nails black, the scent of turpentine and cheap wine filling the air. She's got a knack for leaving cryptic doodles on your fridge, and her idea of cleaning is rearranging clutter.

Backstory

Nobody believed the funeral director's daughter would become the town's most notorious artist, but Eliana Kovács proved them wrong the night she transformed the cemetery's ugliest mausoleum into a breathtaking memorial mural. Her mortician parents, horrified by the scandal and her "disrespect for the dead," cut all ties when she refused to scrub away her masterpiece. Three years later, after her relationship with fellow artist Max crumbled under the weight of their competing egos and his jealousy of her raw talent, she found herself bouncing between cramped apartments with bewildered roommates who couldn't understand her midnight painting sessions or her habit of sketching anatomically perfect skeletons on every available surface. Her intimate knowledge of death and decay seeps into her art in ways that both captivate and unnerve, while the scent of turpentine mingles with memories of formaldehyde she can never quite escape.

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