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Seduction
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Hardcover - Atria (ISBN: 978-1451621501)
"Rose seduces the reader from the very first page. Enticing thriller... fascinating... unexpected. Rose has written another winner." —Associated Press
In 1843, novelist Victor Hugo's beloved nineteen-year-old daughter drowned. Ten years later, still grieving, Hugo initiated hundreds of séances 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, Galileo, Shakespeare, Dante, Jesus—and even the Devil himself. Hugo's transcriptions of these conversations have all been published.

Or so it has been believed...

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The Book of Lost Fragrances
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Paperback - Atria (ISBN: 978-1451621488)

A sweeping and suspenseful tale of secrets, intrigue, and lovers separated by time, all connected through the mystical qualities of a perfume created in the days of Cleopatra—and lost for 2,000 years. Read more...

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