Sovereign
(Windswift Press) This novel about a brilliant painter whose greatest enemy is his half-brother is a trilogy, containing within it the first book, A Raking Light; the second, Give Me a Child; and the third, Suitable for Liberty. It takes place in a foreign land and in America, focusing on the two brothers whose lives turn from hero-worship to deadly strife and love the same woman. A painter and sculptor, Pattillo teaches artistic anatomy at the Schuler School of Fine Arts in Baltimore.

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