The Witch of Painted Sorrows by M.J. Rose

Rose to discuss her career and her latest novel, the gripping and luxuriant THE WITCH OF PAINTED SORROWS. But an ancestral malevolence lurks in the walls of her grandmother’s mansion. She resolves never to return to the life she left behind. Here, Sandrine discovers her own burning passions and a promising new life as a painter studying at the École des Beaux-Arts.

When her husband betrays her father and drives him to suicide, Sandrine flees secretly to Paris, where she enters her grandmother’s world, a demimonde of courtesans and their wealthy patrons. And though she enjoys wealth, social position, and a profound, spiritual bond with her adoring father, her marriage is passionless. Sandrine Salome is the wife of a New York banker. An opulent tale of destiny and reinvention, relentless passion and cabalistic mysticism, of love lost and the pursuit to regain it across death and the ages, THE WITCH OF PAINTED SORROWS is set against the backdrop of Belle Époque Paris. Her latest novel, THE WITCH OF PAINTED SORROWS, is the first book of a new trilogy from Atria Books/Simon & Schuster: The Daughters of La Lune.

Rose is the New York Times bestselling author of fifteen novels, including the Butterfield Institute and Reincarnationist series. In her instantly absorbing tour de force, Rose imagines Sandrine's '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.M. Fear, desire, lust, and raw emotion ooze off the page,' says the Associated Press. Rose has a talent for compelling writing, and this time she has outdone herself.

Soon Sandrine's 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. There Sandrine meets Julien Duplessi, a mesmerizing architect who introduces her to the City of Lights-its art world, forbidden occult underground, nightclubs-and to her own untapped desires. New York socialite Sandrine Salome flees an abusive husband for her grandmother's Paris mansion, despite warnings that the lavish family home is undergoing renovation and too dangerous to enter. Rose creates her most provocative spellbinder to date in this gothic novel set against the lavish backdrop of Belle Époque Paris.Ĭalled 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 James's The Turn of the Screw.'

The Witch of Painted Sorrows by M.J. Rose