Тайна, заради която си струва да умреш… Открай време видения от миналото тормозят Жаки л’Етоал, а най-ранните й спомени са обгърнати от екзотичните ухания, с които е израснала като наследничка на френска парфюмерийна компания. Виденията й стават все по-страшни след самоубийството на майка й, докато накрая не попада на лекар, който успява да й помогне, като я учи как да разпознава митологичните символи в халюцинациите си. С помощта на това си умение Жак си изгражда успешна кариера като митолог, телевизионна водеща и писателка.

Любознательный человек часто задается вопросами, ответов на которые не существует. Просто потому, что проверить, «что будет, если…», невозможно. Кто победил бы в битве – Александр Македонский или Чингисхан? Кто быстрее и изящнее разобрался бы в тайне преступления – Шерлок Холмс или Эркюль Пуаро?.. Но на сей раз звезды современного мирового детектива и триллера воплотили в жизнь уникальную задумку – свели под одной обложкой главных персонажей своих романов. Впервые фантазии авторов сталкивают лицом к лицу Джека Ричера и Ника Хеллера, Грея Пирса и Коттона Малоуна, Линкольна Райма и Лукаса Дэвенпорта – кумиров миллионов читателей по всему миру. Противостояние героев – и их создателей… Кто...

Nestled within Paris's 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 by the city's fashion elite as the place to find the rarest of gemstones and the most unique designs. But war has transformed Paris from a city of style and romance to a place of fear and mourning. In the summer of 1918, places where lovers used to walk, widows now wander alone. Employeed at La Fantasie Russie a girl with a special ability is sent on a dangerous journey to the darkest corners of wartime Paris.

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 Epoque Paris. Indie Next Pick 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 James s "The Turn of the Screw." New York socialite Sandrine Salome flees an abusive husband for her grandmother s Paris mansion, despite...

"One of the most original and exciting novels I've read in a long time, with a premise so delicious I'm sick with envy I didn't think of it myself." Douglas Preston A bomb in Rome, a flash of bluish-white light, and photojournalist Josh Ryder's 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 can't explain Josh's baffling symptoms. And the memories have an urgency he can't ignore-pulling him to save a woman named Sabina-and the treasures she...

A lush and imaginative novel that crisscrosses time as a perfumer and a mythologist search for the fine line between potion and poison, poison and passion… and past and present. From the internationally bestselling author, a lush and imaginative novel that crisscrosses time as passion and obsessions collide Florence, Italy – 1533: An orphan named Rene le Florentin is plucked from poverty to become Catherine de Medici's perfumer. Traveling with the young duchessina from Italy to France, Rene brings with him a cache of secret documents from the monastery where he was trained: recipes for exotic fra-grances and potent medicines – and a formula for an alchemic process said to have the...

The dreads are back. As a child, Meers Logan was haunted by memories of another time and place, always accompanied by the faint strains of elusive music. Now the hand of the past has reached out again. An envelope addressed to her and delivered to the Phoenix Foundation – an institute dedicated to the recovery of past life memories – contains a childhood drawing of an elaborate box that Meers recognizes.and a sheet from an auction catalog identifying the object – which she spent years imagining – as an eighteenth-century gaming box. Determined to unlock the mystery of who she once was, she travels to Vienna to find the box. With each step, she comes closer to remembering the connections...

"Haunting, lyrical… Not to be missed." James Rollins In Vienna a clandestine robbery inside a locked library leads to a brutal murder. A 1,500-year-old sculpture holds the Metropolitan Museum of Art hostage. A young woman's fatal accident gives two lovers a chance to meet again, against all odds. A centuries-old massacre in Persia has modern-day repercussions in Iran. In New York City a Matisse masterpiece surfaces after twenty years, mutilated and vandalized. A modern-day reincarnationist is hell-bent on finding tools to aid in past life regressions no matter what the cost – in dollars or lives. Everything rests on the shoulders of Lucian Glass, special agent with the FBI's Art Crime Team,...

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. Jac L'Etoile has always been haunted by the past, her memories infused with the exotic scents that she grew up surrounded by as the heir to a storied French perfume company. In order to flee the pain of those remembrances-and of her mother's suicide-she moved to America. Now, fourteen years later she and her brother have inherited the company along with it's financial problems. But when Robbie hints at an earth-shattering discovery in the family archives and then suddenly goes missing-leaving...

From the author of "The Book of Lost Fragrances" comes a haunting novel about a grieving woman who discovers the lost journal of novelist Victor Hugo, awakening a mystery that spans centuries.