Pentimento Trap

Eamon Gable is a senior art conservator whose meticulous life is dedicated to uncovering the truth beneath layers of paint. Working the night shift alone in a subterranean, climate-controlled museum vault, he begins analyzing a newly acquired 16th-century masterpiece. But when Eamon runs an infrared scan, the hidden underpainting-a pentimento-reveals a terrifying truth: it is a modern, dynamically updating blueprint of the very vault he is locked inside.

As a thermal blip on the monitor move...