*The Lost Paintings of Pieter van Dijk* is a dual-timeline historical novel set in 1950s and 1650s Amsterdam. In the modern timeline, Katja van Dam discovers a hidden attic filled with centuries-old paintings—and a man who claims to have painted them. Pieter van Dijk, a gifted 17th-century artist, was cursed with immortality and imprisoned by a rival who used dark magic to steal his identity. As Katja unravels her father's wartime secrets and the spell that binds Pieter, she unknowingly mirrors the actions of Sophie Verhoeven, Pieter’s muse in the 1600s, who risked her life to expose the same enemy centuries earlier. Their intertwined fates converge across time to break the curse and reclaim a stolen legacy.