Checkmate Painting Novels & Stories

Rhea Hale, a young art restorer at the old Elaria gallery, lives a life of near-perfect calm—canvases, colors, and classical symphonies that fill her every day. But when she touches a mysterious painting titled The Moon Painting, something inside her begins to shift. Strange visions, eyes watching from the fog, and wild emotions she can't explain slowly start to unravel her peaceful world. Across the city, Kaelan Viero—the national hockey team’s captain—carries the charm and composure of a champion. But beneath the arena lights and public spotlight, there's a side of him he never shows… until his eyes lock with a stranger’s in the stands. That brief moment sparks something long buried. And from then on, neither of their lives remains the same. "One glance started it all. And after that... there was no turning back."

Layla Anderson has spent years perfecting the art of hating Wade Scott. Kingsley University's hockey captain— the one she despises most. Maybe it’s the arrogance. Maybe it’s the bullying from before. Or maybe it’s the fact that in a few months, he is about to become her stepbrother. When her painting is destroyed and everything points to Wade, Layla gets revenge. And revenge has consequences. One ruined painting, one stolen game, and suddenly both of their futures are on the edge of a cliff. With her scholarship under review and his hockey career hanging by a thread, they are forced into a deal: fix each other's futures in two months. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, their parents decided the best way to make them get along was to move them into the same dorm room. No escape, no space, and no way out. But when hate stops feeling like hate... what happens next?

It tells the story of Jane, a designer with a high talent for painting but a checkered life experience. On his way to realizing his ideals and reaching the top, he meets a CEO, the mafia, has different love with him. The ending is more like a fairy tale, revolving around Jane's inspirational and sober goals and his unswerving and hard-working life.

Art Is Beautiful and also enchanting. Camille is a struggling artist trying to survive the expensive world of arts. With rejections from different art galleries because of her painting, Camille believed she was a terrible painter. All her paintings were of a wolf with red glowing eyes. Every time Camille applies for an exhibition in art galleries, she is always rejected but fate smiled on her when she was accepted to exhibit her paintings in the biggest art gallery in the country. There, Camille met her fate. A fate that could lead to her doom. Axel is a popular gallerist in the country and also had a hidden identity. He was a Lycan cursed to live on earth for eternity. Axel's fate changed when he saw Camille's paintings. They were the painting of his Lycan and that's where it's all started, the path to his doom. With the curse on Axel's destiny, his Ex ànd an Alpha who wanted him dead, Axel and Camille must conquer the threats that might ruin their fate.

An alliance between the humans and werewolves of Yellow moon town had been established during the 100 year-old war against the intruding vampire settlement within the town. Winter Ash come home to meet and learn of this war in which she has to inevitably be a part of when she's led to join the werewolf community after a brief period of staying in the Ash mansion, alone. An encounter with the sorceress, Scarlett Pin — to who she had been betrothed at death as Vinci Gray who is her ancestor and former self — reveals her past life and who she truly is as a wolf in the socio-sexual hierarchy of the packs in fragmental hints. Prior to this encounter and her resolution to live within the packs, she'd witnessed, foiled and survived both a theft plot towards the valuable La Reina painting and an assassination attempt towards her. The said painting, happens to be one of the remaining works of the first Sigma and famous artist, Vinci Gray, on whose works a value boom had fallen on in the global art market. She laters move to the town in search of Scarlett, her mate who turns out to be a young male sorcerer in contrast to her expectation, after leading the werewolves to war with the vampires

I burned my painting right in front of the students and university staff. Thunderous applause filled the hall. Everyone thought it was some kind of performance. But my senior in the graduate program panicked. He rushed forward and grabbed my wrist, his voice tight. “Connor, have you gone mad? This is your only shot to prove yourself!” I shook him off, cold. A chance? That was his chance, right? During my past life, he stole the painting I poured my heart and soul into and entered it in the competition ahead of me. The composition, the colors, even my original technique… He copied all of it. He won the Gold Award for the National Youth Art Competition, signed with a top gallery, and basked in glory. Meanwhile, I was branded a shameless plagiarist. The insults and curses overwhelmed me completely. "Get out of the art scene already!" “A plagiarist like you should just die!” His fans stormed my studio, smashed my tools, and broke my right hand. With my world in ruins, I jumped off the studio roof. Opening my eyes again, I realized I had returned to the day my senior accused me of plagiarism.

Debt collectors showed up at our doorstep when my mother's company went bankrupt. They said they would break one of my mom's legs if the money was not repaid within three days. I swallowed my pride and went to my girlfriend Jasmine, who had a net worth of over a hundred million dollars. I begged her to lend me $500,000 to get my family through this crisis. It was the first time I had ever asked her for money. She frowned but still agreed, saying she would have her finance department transfer it to me that afternoon. I waited by my phone, refreshing my bank balance over and over, from daylight until nightfall. However, she suddenly went completely silent, ignoring my calls and messages. Anxious and restless, I tried to comfort myself, telling myself she might just be busy with something urgent. Still, saving my mom's leg could not wait. In the end, I had no choice but to take the watch my father left me before he died and bring it to an auction. I did not expect to run into Jasmine at the auction house with her childhood sweetheart, Lionel. She was spending money like it meant nothing, bidding on an expensive painting for him. The final price of that painting was exactly $500,000. She had not forgotten about me. It was just that my desperate emergency meant less to her than the man she truly cared about.

Thirteen years ago, a single choice shattered their lives. Now, Aidan Vance is the king of Manhattan, and Kyle is an artist painting his pain in strokes of shadow and light. When fate forces them back into each other's orbit, the air between them crackles with a tension that neither can ignore. Aidan wants redemption; Kyle wants to forget. But as Aidan’s protection turns into an all-consuming fixation, they find themselves trapped in a web of secrets and unspoken desires. In a world of high-stakes business and underground art galleries, they will learn that the truth is more brutal than any canvas and that some obsessions never truly fade.

A talented painter, Lexi Thompson, is kidnapped by a notorious gang leader, Julian Blackwood, and she is given 60 days to paint a duplicate of a priceless artwork. As Lexi works to meet up with the deadline, she uncovers mysterious secrets about Julian's family, her troubled past and her parents demise whose deaths were linked to the painting she was asked to make a replica of. Lexi and Julian navigate through tough situations from rival gangs, their prohibited love becomes the greatest danger of all. Will they overcome their troubled pasts and trust each other, or will the secrets unveiled tear them apart?

On her twenty-first birthday, Jade Azura finds herself suddenly thrown into another world--thanks to a mysterious painting she finds in a museum exhibit. She meets a man named Jin who tells her that her only way home is by enlisting the help of a god named Bai Hu, but first, they must find the god's Seven Stars--people who held a fragment of the god within themselves. The journey to finding Bai Hu's Seven Stars commences, but it isn't an easy one. As feelings grow and passions arise, Jade slowly discovers the true meaning of life and that sometimes, things aren't always as they seem.