M. J. Rose

El miedo ha vuelto. De niña. Meer Logan vivió atormentada por el recuerdo de otro tiempo y otro lugar, entre las tenues notas de una músico esquiva. Ahora el pasado vuelve a manifestarse en una extraña carta que la conduce a Viena para descifrar el misterio de su identidad olvidada. Cada paso que da la acerca al recuerdo de los lazos existentes entre David Yalom, un periodista que sabe muy buen cómo afecta el pasado al porvenir, una sociedad secreta consagrada al estudio de la reencarnación y una flauta perdida vinculada a Ludwig van Beethoven. Yalom conoce la muerte de primera mano: un atentado terrorista le arrebató a toda su familia. Ha visto cómo los expertos en seguridad proponían soluciones y ha presenciado el fracaso de todas ellas. Ahora, mediante un único acto de violencia en una sala de conciertos de Viena, planea obligar al mundo a comprender el coste de ese fracaso. Porque quien no recuerda el pasado está condenado a repetirlo...

Stull suffering from the pain of her husbands infidelity, Jordan Sloan is also haunted by the long-ago murder of her father. When she learns that his killer has been paroled she fears his revenge. Although everyone thinks shes being paranoid, Jordan knows better. But as she struggles to prove to others that her fear of Mallory is justified, only she is aware of the dark secret of her relationship with him. All the while, a mysterious stranger seems intent on contributing to Jordans unravelling . . .

In this short story from the New York Times bestselling anthology FaceOff, Lisa Gardner and M.J. Rosealong with their popular characters D.D. Warren and Malachai Samuelsteam up for the first time ever.Sergeant detective D.D. Warren gets called to a murder scene in Bostons colorful Chinatown neighborhood. An antique dealer specializing in ancient Chinese artifactsceramics, jade, and stone carvingsis dead from a single gunshot wound. Although he appeared to have no known enemies, Mr. John Wen did have a business card clutched in his cold, dead hand. A card bearing the name Malachai Samuels.A Jungian therapist specializing in past lives and regression therapy, Samuels has also been named a person of interest in recent criminal cases involving stolen artifacts. And there is an eight-inch, solid jade Buddha statue missing from Wens office. D.D. Warren will have to pay Malachai Samuels a visitthe question is, is he the killer, or can he simply help her find out who is?For more exciting pairs, check out all eleven short stories in FaceOff!

Una bomba en Roma, un relampagueo de luz... el mundo del reportero gráfico Josh Ryder explotó, y a partir de ese momento nada volvería a ser igual. Conforme Josh va recuperándose, en su mente van apareciendo pensamientos que tienen la emoción, la intensidad y la familiaridad de los recuerdos, pero que le resultan ajenos. Pertenecen a un pasado remoto, y son muy violentos. Ni las pruebas médicas ni los exámenes psicológicos consiguen explicar sus desconcertantes síntomas, pero los recuerdos le transmiten una sensación de apremio de la que no puede desprenderse... le instan a que salve a una mujer llamada Sabina, y a que defienda los tesoros que ella protege. Pero, ¿quién es Sabina? La necesidad de encontrar respuestas hace que Josh acuda a la Fundación Fénix, un centro de investigación de renombre mundial donde se documentan científicamente casos de experiencias de vidas pasadas. Lo que descubre allí lo conduce a una excavación arqueológica y a la profesora Gabriella Chase, que ha descubierto una antigua tumba... una tumba que contiene un poderoso secreto que amenaza con fusionar el pasado con el presente. Es un lugar donde los muertos entran en contacto con los vivos, y donde los asesinatos del pasado se convierten en crímenes del presente.

On the surface, Julia Sterlings life is enviable. She lives on Manhattans East Side, is married to a renowned psychiatrist, deeply loves her stepson and is forging a career as a journalist. When a writing assignment exposes Julia to telephone sex, she glimpses a world that stirs her erotic fantasies but threatens her carefully constructed reality. As she probes her emotional and sexual connections to the men she knows and several she will never meet, she confronts evil, perversity and her own passions.

Lip Service is the seductive new novel that everyone is talking about. Crackling with eroticism and suspense, Lip Service probes the secret world of phone sex and one woman who becomes empowered by what she discovers there. Not since Erica Jongs Fear of Flying has a novel so masterfully examined the relationship between sexuality and identity. On the surface, Julia Sterlings life seems blessed. Married to a renowned psychiatrist, living on Manhattans tony Upper East Side, Julia deeply loves her stepson, and is forging a career as a journalist. When a writing job exposes her to the world of phone sex, Julia glimpses a world that stirs her erotic fantasies but threatens her carefully constructed reality. As she explores her emotional and sexual connections to the men she knows and several she will never meet, she confronts evil, perversity, and her own passions. Tracing the currents of desire, illusion, and psychological manipulation,Lip Service is an astonishingly vivid glimpse into one womans inner life. At the same time, this electrifying thriller grips the reader as it builds toward a battering climax.

New York Times bestselling author M. J. Roses wondrously original (Providence Journal) suspense novel featuring perfumer Jac LEtoile combines fascinating history, torrid romance, and a compelling mystery (Associated Press).Florence, Italy1533: An orphan named Rene le Florentin is plucked from poverty to become not only the greatest perfumer in the country, but also the most dangerous, creating deadly poisons for his Queen, Catherine de Medici, to use against her rivals. But while mixing herbs and essences under the light of flickering candles, Rene cant begin to imagine the tragic and personal consequences for which his lethal potions will be responsible.Paris, FranceThe Present:Renowned mythologist Jac LEtoile becomes obsessed with Rene le Florentinwho may have been working on an elixir that would unlock the secret to immortality. Together with her estranged lover, Griffin, they confront an eccentric heiress in possession of a world-class art collection, a woman who has her own dark purpose for the elixirand believes the end will justify her deadly means.Fiery and lush, set against deep, wild forests and dimly lit chateaus, this gothic tale zigzags from the violent days of Catherine de Medicis court to twenty-first-century France. Sara Gruen, New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants, raves about the book: Mysterious, magical, and mythical. What a joy to read!

A spellbinding novel from the internationally bestselling author!A Secret Worth Dying ForJac LEtoile has always been haunted by visions of the past, her earliest memories infused with the exotic scents that she grew up with as the heir to a storied French perfume company. These worsened after her mothers suicide until she finally found a doctor who helped her, teaching her to explore the mythological symbolism in her visions and thus lessen their painful impact. This ability led Jac to a wildly successful career as a mythologist, television personality, and author. When her brother, Robbiewhos taken over the House of LEtoile from their fathercontacts Jac about a remarkable discovery in the family archives, shes skeptical. But when Robbie goes missing before he can share the secretleaving a dead body in his wakeJac is plunged into a world she thought shed left behind. Traveling back to Paris to investigate Robbies disappearance, Jac discovers that the secret is a mysterious scent developed in Cleopatras time. Could the rumors swirling be true? Can this ancient perfume hold the power to unlock the ability to remember past lives and conclusively prove reincarnation? If this possession has the power to change the world, then its not only worth living forits worth killing for, too. The Book of Lost Fragrances fuses history, passion, and suspense in an intoxicating web that moves from Cleopatras Egypt and the terrors of revolutionary France to Tibets battle with China and the glamour of modern-day Paris. This marvelous, spellbinding novel mixes the sensory allure of Perfume with the heartbreaking beauty of The Time Travelers Wife, coming to life as richly as our most wildly imagined dreams.

In this riveting and richly drawn novel from one of the master storytellers of historical fiction (New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams), a talented young artist flees New York for the South of France after one of her scandalous drawings reveals a dark secretand triggers a terribly tragedy.In the wake of the Great War, the glamour of 1925 Manhattan shines like a beacon for high society, desperate to keep their gaze firmly fixed to the future. But Delphine Duplessi sees more than most. At a time in her career when she could easily be unknown and penniless, she has gained notoriety for her stunning shadow portraits that frequently expose her subjects most scandalous secrets.Then, on a snowy night in a penthouse high above Fifth Avenue, Delphines mystical talent leads to a tragedy between two brothers. Devastated and disconsolate, Delphine renounces her gift and returns to her old life in the South of France where Picasso, Matisse, and the Fitzgeralds are living. There, Delphine is thrust into recapturing the past. First by her charismatic twin brother and business manager, Sebastian, who attempts to cajole her back into work and into codependence, then by the world famous opera singer Emma Calve, who is obsessed with the writings of the fourteenth-century alchemist Nicolas Flamel. And finally by her ex-lover Mathieu, who is determined to lure her back into his arms, unaware of the danger that led Delphine to flee him five years before.Trapped in an ancient chateau where hidden knowledge lurks in the shadows, Delphine questions everything and everyone she loves the mosther art, her magick, her family, and Mathieuin an effort to see them as the gifts they are. Only there can she shed her fear of loving and living with her eyes open.

From M.J. Rose, New York Times bestselling author of Tiffany Blues, a lush, romantic historical mystery (Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale), comes a gorgeously wrought novel of ambition and betrayal set in the Gilded Age. New York, 1910: A city of extravagant balls in Fifth Avenue mansions and poor immigrants crammed into crumbling Lower East Side tenements. A city where the suffrage movement is growing stronger every day, but most women reporters are still delegated to the fashion and lifestyle pages. But Vera Garland is set on making her mark in a mans world of serious journalism.Shortly after the world-famous Hope Diamond is acquired for a record sum, Vera begins investigating rumors about schemes by its new owner, jeweler Pierre Cartier, to manipulate its value. Vera is determined to find the truth behind the notorious diamond and its legendary curseseven better when the expose puts her in the same orbit as a magazine publisher whose blackmailing schemes led to the death of her beloved father.Appealing to a young Russian jeweler for help, Vera is unprepared when she begins falling in love with himand even more unprepared when she gets caught up in his deceptions and finds herself at risk of losing all she has worked so hard to achieve.Set against the backdrop of New Yorks glitter and grit, of ruthless men and the atrocities they commit in the pursuit of power, this enthralling historical novel explores our very human needs for love, retributionand to pursue ones destiny, regardless of the cost.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Library of Light and Shadow crafts an enchanting glimpse of Jazz Age New York (Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train) about a young painter whose traumatic past threatens to derail her career at a prestigious summer artists colony run by Louis Comfort Tiffany of Tiffany & Co. fame. New York, 1924: Twentyfouryearold Jenny Bell is one of a dozen burgeoning artists invited to Louis Comfort Tiffanys prestigious artists colony. Gifted and determined, Jenny vows to avoid all distractions and take full advantage of the many wonders to be found at Laurelton Hall.But Jennys past has followed her there. Images of her beloved mother, her hard-hearted stepfather, murder, and the dank hallways of Canadas notorious Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women overwhelm Jennys thoughts, even as she is inextricably drawn to Oliver, Tiffanys charismatic grandson.As the summer shimmers on, and the competition between the artists grows fierce as they vie for a spot at Tiffanys New York gallery, a series of suspicious and disturbing occurrences suggest someone else knows about Jennys childhood trauma.Supported by her closest friend Minx Deering, a seemingly carefree socialite yet dedicated sculptor, and Oliver, Jenny pushes her demons aside. Between stolen kisses and jewels, the champagne flows and the jazz plays on until one moonless night when Jennys past and present are thrown together in a desperate moment, that will threaten her promising future, her love, her friendships, and her very life.This fast-paced mystery, star-crossed romance, and love letter to Louis Comfort Tiffany will captivate Roses many fans and readers of 20th-century historical fiction (Library Journal, starred review).

As World War I rages and the Romanov dynasty reaches its sudden, brutal end, a young jewelry maker discovers love, passion, and her own healing powers in this dazzling (Library Journal, starred review) and romantic ghost story, the perfect follow-up to M. J. Roses brilliantly crafted (Providence Journal) novel The Witch of Painted Sorrows.Nestled within Pariss historic Palais Royal is a jewelry store unlike any other. La Fantasie Russie is owned by Pavel Orloff, protege to the famous Faberge, and is known to the citys fashion elite as the place to find the rarest of gemstones and the most unique designs. But in the summer of 1918, war has transformed Paris from a city of style and romance to a place of fear and mourning. It is in La Fantasie Russies workshop that young, ambitious Opaline Duplessi now spends her time making trench watches for soldiers at the front, as well as mourning jewelry for the mothers, wives, and lovers of those who have fallen. People say that Opalines creations are magical. Magic is a word Opaline would rather not use, although even she cant deny she possesses a rare gift.Certain gemstones enable her to receive messages from beyond the grave. In her mind, she is no mystic, merely a messenger, giving voice to soldiers who died before they were able to properly express themselves to loved ones. Until one day, when one of these fallen soldiers communicates a messagedirectly to her. So begins a dangerous journey that will take Opaline into the darkest corners of wartime Paris and across the English Channel, where the exiled Romanov dowager empress is waiting to discover the fate of her family. Full of romance, seduction, and a love so powerful it reaches beyond the grave, The Secret Language of Stones is a fantastic historical tale of war, love, loss, and intrigue, enhanced by vivid period detail (Melanie Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Aviators Wife).

Una bomba en Roma, un relampagueo de luz... el mundo del reportero gráfico Josh Ryder explotó, y a partir de ese momento nada volvería a ser igual.Conforme Josh va recuperándose, en su mente van apareciendo pensamientos que tienen la emocion, la intensidad y la familiaridad de los recuerdos, pero que le resultan ajenos. Pertenecen a un pasado remoto, y son muy violentos. Ni las pruebas medicas ni los examenes psicologicos consiguen explicar sus desconcertantes sintomas, pero los recuerdos le transmiten una sensacion de apremio de la que no puede desprenderse... le instan a que salve a una mujer llamada Sabina, y a que defienda los tesoros que ella protege.Pero, ¿quien es Sabina?La necesidad de encontrar respuestas hace que Josh acuda a la Fundacion Fenix, un centro de investigacion de renombre mundial donde se documentan cientificamente casos de experiencias de vidas pasadas. Lo que descubre alli lo conduce a una excavacion arqueologica y a la profesora Gabriella Chase, que ha descubierto una antigua tumba... una tumba que contiene un poderoso secreto que amenaza con fusionar el pasado con el presente. Es un lugar donde los muertos entran en contacto con los vivos, y donde los asesinatos del pasado se convierten en crimenes del presente.

Por la autora de Los amantes de Praga, Alyson RichmanPrincipios del siglo XX. El mundo está dominado por hombres y el ámbito artístico en Estocolmo no es una excepción. Hilma af Klint, cansada de no encontrar un espacio para desarrollarse, convoca cada viernes por la noche a un enigmatico grupo de artistas Anna, Cornelia, Sigrid y Mathilda para crear su propia red de apoyo emocional y artistico. Las Cinco, como se hacen llamar, se internan en un territorio desconocido cuando Hilma y Anna incursionan en el ocultismo, esperando que a traves de sesiones espiritistas puedan canalizar espiritus que las ayuden a expandir su potencial como pintoras.Mas de un siglo despues en Nueva York, el curador del Museo Guggenheim, Eben Elliot, exhibe la obra de Hilma af Klint y con ello revela secretos sobre Las Cinco y el oscuro y cuestionable financiamiento del arte moderno. Una apasionante novela que explora el destino, la pasion y los hilos que conectaron a cinco mujeres mientras desafiaban las tradiciones artisticas y sociales de su epoca.Audiolibro narrado en español neutro.

El miedo ha vuelto. De niña, Meer Logan vivió atormentada por el recuerdo de otro tiempo y otro lugar, entre las tenues notas de una música esquiva. Ahora el pasado vuelve a manifestarse en forma de una extraña carta que la conduce a Viena para descifrar el misterio de su identidad olvidada.Cada paso que da la acerca al recuerdo de los lazos existentes entre David Yalom, un periodista que sabe muy bien como afecta el pasado al porvenir, una sociedad secreta consagrada al estudio de la reencarnacion y una flauta perdida vinculada a Ludwig van Beethoven.Yalom conoce la muerte de primera mano: un atentado terrorista le arrebato a toda su familia. Ha visto como los expertos en seguridad proponian soluciones y ha presenciado el fracaso de todas ellas. Ahora, mediante un unico acto de violencia en una sala de conciertos de Viena, planea obligar al mundo a comprender el coste de ese fracaso. Porque quien no recuerda el pasado esta condenado a repetirlo...

Hot on the trail of her much talked-about debut, Lip Service, M.J. Rose once again explores the dark corners of the human psyche in a riveting and erotic tale of love, lust...and betrayal. Although everyone thinks shes being paranoid, psychotherapist Jordan Sloan knows better. Haunted by the long-ago murder of her father, she learns that his killer has been paroled and she instantly fears his revenge. Only she knows the dark secret of her relationship with Mallory -- and the depth of her deception in providing the testimony that put him away. She sees him in shadows, in mirrors, in photographs her teenage daughter takes in the park.... Still suffering the bruises of her husbands betrayal, Jordan grapples with ambiguous emotions even as she is drawn again to her estranged spouse. Clinging desperately to the hard-earned stability of her life, she maneuvers through the meshwork of loves fragile bonds, layers of longing, and the chaos that is human relationships. All the while, a mysterious new patient seems intent on contributing to Jordans unraveling. For as she struggles to prove that her fear of Mallory is justified, she also wrestles with how it might feel to finally forgive Roberts infidelity. M.J. Rose has crafted a rare and evocative new novel of spellbinding energy, as a woman come to terms with her own life -- assuming she will continue to enjoy the luxury of living it.

Possession. Power. Passion. New York Times bestselling novelist M.J. Rose creates her most provocative spellbinder to date in this gothic novel set against the lavish backdrop of Belle Époque Paris.Library Reads Pick People Magazine Pick Boston Globe Pick of the Week Called an elegant tale of rare depth and beauty, as brilliantly crafted as it is wondrously told by the Providence Journal, The Witch of Painted Sorrows melds the normal and paranormal in the kind of seamless fashion reserved for such classic ghost stories as Henry Jamess The Turn of the Screw. New York socialite Sandrine Salome flees an abusive husband for her grandmothers Paris mansion, despite warnings that the lavish family home is undergoing renovation and too dangerous to enter. There Sandrine meets Julien Duplessi, a mesmerizing architect who introduces her to the City of Lightsits art world, forbidden occult underground, nightclubsand to her own untapped desires. Soon Sandrines husband tracks her down and an insidious spirit takes hold: La Lune, a witch and a legendary sixteenth-century courtesan who exposes Sandrine to a deadly darkness. M.J. Rose has a talent for compelling writing, and this time she has outdone herself. Fear, desire, lust, and raw emotion ooze off the page, says the Associated Press. In her instantly absorbing tour de force, Rose imagines Sandrines wild night of the soul dramatically underwritten by a tragic love story and a family curse that illuminates the fine line between explosive passion and complete ruination.

From the author of The Book of Lost Fragrances comes a hauntingly evocative and suspenseful novel about a grieving woman who discovers the long-lost letters of novelist Victor Hugo, awakening a mystery that spans centuries.A spellbinding gothic tale about Victor Hugos long-buried secrets and the power of a lover that never diesGrieving his daughters death, Victor Hugo initiated seances from his home on the Isle of Jersey in order to reestablish contact with her. In the process, he claimed to have communed with Plato, Shakespeare, Dante- and even the devil himself. Hugos transcriptions of these conversations have all been published. Or so it has been believedA hundred years later, recovering from her own great loss, mythologist Jac LEtoile is invited to Jersey to uncover a secret about the islands mysterious Celtic roots. Shes greeted by Neolithic monuments, medieval castles, and hidden caves. But the man who has invited her there, a troubled soul named Theo Gaspard, hopes shell help him discover something quite differentsomething that will threaten their sanity and put their very lives at stake.

Por la autora de Los amantes de Praga, Alyson RichmanPrincipios del siglo XX. El mundo está dominado por hombres y el ámbito artístico en Estocolmo no es una excepción. Hilma af Klint, cansada de no encontrar un espacio para desarrollarse, convoca cada viernes por la noche a un enigmatico grupo de artistas Anna, Cornelia, Sigrid y Mathilda para crear su propia red de apoyo emocional y artistico. Las Cinco, como se hacen llamar, se internan en un territorio desconocido cuando Hilma y Anna incursionan en el ocultismo, esperando que a traves de sesiones espiritistas puedan canalizar espiritus que las ayuden a expandir su potencial como pintoras.Mas de un siglo despues en Nueva York, el curador del Museo Guggenheim, Eben Elliot, exhibe la obra de Hilma af Klint y con ello revela secretos sobre Las Cinco y el oscuro y cuestionable financiamiento del arte moderno. Una apasionante novela que explora el destino, la pasion y los hilos que conectaron a cinco mujeres mientras desafiaban las tradiciones artisticas y sociales de su epoca.

A bomb in Rome, a flash of bluish-white light, and photojournalist Josh Ryders world exploded. From that instant nothing would ever be the same. As Josh recovers, his mind is increasingly invaded with thoughts that have the emotion, the intensity, the intimacy of memories. But they are not his memories. They are ancient and violent. A battery of medical and psychological tests cant explain Joshs baffling symptoms. And the memories have an urgency he cant ignore pulling him to save a woman named Sabina and the treasures she is protecting. But who is Sabina? Desperate for answers, Josh turns to the world-renowned Phoenix Foundation a research facility that scientifically documents cases of past life experiences. His findings there lead him to an archaeological dig and to Professor Gabriella Chase, who has discovered an ancient tomb a tomb with a powerful secret that threatens to merge the past with the present. Here, the dead call out to the living, and murders of the past become murders of the present.