A Time-Twisted tale
Time bends for Kiki Casanova.
Art, obsession, and danger follow her through every era she touches.

Kiki Casanova is chasing her father's ghost across a hundred years of art, lovers, and danger.
Follow her through every era — before she disappears into the next one.

Be there when she jumps.

The Series

Artists & Lovers

She didn't just study art history. She lived it.

Disillusioned by an art world overrun by machines, 24-year-old Kiki learns from her godfather Ramon to step into the canvases themselves. Each meditation carries her to a pivotal moment in art history. Each journey gives her a lover, a movement to master, and another fragment of the mystery surrounding her father’s death — and the figure who pursues her through every century.

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The BOOKS

Each book a country, a movement, a love.

Meditate on a masterwork. Surrender to its color. Open your eyes in another century. These are the cities Kiki has visited — and the ones still waiting on the canvas.

Book I
Paris · 1917
Book II
Berlin · 1927
Book III
Madrid · 1939
Book IV
Cairo · 1952
Book V
Russia · 1962
Book VI
Buenos Aires · 1976
Book VII
Tangier · 1950
Book VIII
Rome · 1962
Book IX
Prague · 1968
Book X
New York · 1982
Book XI
Mexico City · 1968
Book XII
San Francisco · 2024

The journeys await.

“A painting is only ever halfway finished. The other half is the woman who falls into it, eyes open.”— from Book I, passion in paris
Kiki Casanova, black-and-white portrait facing the fog in San Francisco
Meet the Author

A wanderer, a witness to beauty - and to wreckage.

Janet Margiotta writes the way she walks — unhurried, wide awake, at street level, from inside the crowd rather than the sidelines. Her work lives where art history meets the heart.

Her debut series, Artists & Lovers, follows Kiki Casanova, a recent art school graduate who learns to slip through time by meditating on the masterworks themselves. Twelve books. Twelve cities. Twelve love affairs — and one mystery that threads them all.‍
‍Margiotta writes for readers who'd rather get lost in a city than follow the map.

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