A Time-Twisted Romance Series by Kiki Casanova

ArtistsLovers

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

Twelve Eras · Twelve Loves · One Eternal Mystery
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Kiki Casanova, black-and-white portrait facing the fog in San Francisco
Kiki, facing the fogSan Francisco · 2024
Meet the Author

A romantic, a wanderer, a witness to a century of beauty.

Kiki Casanova writes from the seam where art history meets the heart — sensual, sumptuous novels that move between the studios of Montmartre Paris and the fog of present-day San Francisco.

Her debut series, Artists & Lovers, follows a young art student who learns to slip through time by meditating on the masterworks themselves. Twelve books. Twelve cities. Twelve passionate love affairs — and one mystery that threads them all.

Casanova writes for readers who underline things, who keep postcards from museum gift shops, who believe a brushstroke can echo across centuries. She is the pen name of a working artist, and the protagonist of the story she is telling.

Kiki
Kiki Casanova
Artist · author
San Francisco
The Series

Artists & Lovers

Disillusioned by an art world overrun by machines, a 24-year-old painter 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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Books I – III

The Awakening

Kiki discovers her gift, glimpses a recurring pursuer, and begins to notice the pattern beneath her travels.

Books IV – VI

Ramon’s Bloodline

Deeper exploration of her godfather’s history and the mythology of time travel woven through their family.

Books VII – IX

Ancient Origins

The ancient roots of the gift — and art’s role in the consciousness that connects every era to the next.

Books X – XI

Mastery

Near-resolution of the mysteries. Kiki becomes the artist, the lover, and the time-traveler she was always meant to be.

Book XII

Revelation

The pursuer named. Her father’s sacrifice understood. And a final return home to a transformed San Francisco.

The Twelve Journeys

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
Passion in Paris
Impressionism’s first breath
Montmartre
coming 2027I.
Book II
berlin · 1927
Bacchanal in Berlin
High Renaissance
Oltrarno Workshops
Coming 2027II.
Book III
madrid· 1939
Majesty in Madrid
The Secession
Ringstrasse Salons
Coming 2027III.
Book IV
tangier · 1950
Tryst in Tangier
Mexican Modernism
Coyoacán
Coming 2027IV.
Book V
cairo · 1952
Chrysalis in Cairo
Ukiyo-e
Old Tokyo
In the StudioV.
Book VI
rome · 1960 (1968?)
Radiance in Rome
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The Jordaan
In the StudioVI.
Book VII
st petersburg · 1962
Rhapsody in Russia
Post-Impressionism
Mataïea
in the studioVII.
Book VIII
Berlin · 1968
Paramour in Prague
Bauhaus & Weimar
Mitte Ateliers
in the studioVIII.

Four more journeys await. Buenos Aires, New York and Mexico City. And, at last, home.

“A painting is only ever halfway finished. The other half
is the woman who falls into it, eyes open.”— from Book I, A Window of Loose Light
What the Series Holds

For readers who underline things & keep the postcards.

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Art as the Lingua Franca

Every brushstroke is a doorway. Every pigment, a passport. Kiki learns that art has always been the one tongue civilizations share — and the medium through which she will move.

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Love Across the Centuries

Twelve lovers in twelve eras. Men, women, the painter and the muse. Each romance bittersweet by design — she must return — and each one teaches her what stays.

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Technology & Tradition

Born into an AI-flooded art world, Kiki finds her gift by returning to the hand, the canvas, the eye. The series asks what we lose when the machines paint for us.

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A Family’s Inheritance

Her father’s death. Her godfather’s secrets. A pursuer who recognizes her in every century. The mystery thickens with each book — and resolves only when she comes home.

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