M.J Rose Books In Order

The Halo Effect

At the Butterfield Institute Dr. Morgan Snow, one of New York’s top sex therapists, sees everything from the abused to the depraved, from couples grappling with sexual boredom to twisted sociopaths with dark, erotic fetishes.

Cleo Thane is one of those special patients Morgan connects with immediately. A high priced prostitute, Cleo is desperate to reconcile her successful professional life with her neglected personal one. When she asks Morgan to read her unpublished tell all book about her exclusive clientele, Morgan realizes that what she has in her hands could be explosive.

Then Cleo Disappears

Detective Noah Jordan is trying to stay one step ahead of a serial killer who has been targeting prostitutes, killing them with ritualistic precision. When a missing person’s report is filed on Cleo Thane, Noah wonders if she, too, has fallen prey to the psycho’s wrath. He approaches Dr. Morgan Snow for insight, but Morgan refuses to breach patient confidentiality. Instead, she begins her own investigation into Cleo’s disappearance and is shocked by how much the intimate sexual details of another woman’s life affect her own. Too late she realizes she’s ventured into dangerous even deadly territory.

The Delilah Complex

Twelve sexually adventurous women form a secret club that becomes the center of investigation when several men they’ve recruited to dominate are murdered. Turning to sex therapist Dr. Morgan Snow for grief counseling, the group may be harboring a murderer.

The Venus Fix

As one of New York’s top sex therapists, Dr. Morgan Snow sees everything from the abused to the depraved. From high profile clients with twisted obsessions to courageous survivors, the Butterfield Institute is the sanctuary to heal battered souls. Morgan Snow’s newest patient is a powerful, influential man secretly addicted to watching Internet Web cam po*rnography. He’s not alone in his desires. She’s also working with a group of high school teenagers equally and dangerously obsessed with these real time fantasies. Fantasies that are all too accessible. Then the women start dying online, right in front of their eyes. Now it’s all about murder.

The Reincarnationist

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 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.

The Memorist

International bestseller M.J. Rose has written a gripping and unforgettable novel about a woman paralyzed by the past, a man robbed of his future, and a centuries old secret. The dreads are back. As a child, Meer Logan was haunted by memories of another time and place, always accompanied by the faint strains of elusive music. Now the past has reached out again in the form of a strange letter that sets her on a journey to Vienna to unlock the mystery of who she once was. With each step, she comes closer to remembering connections between a clandestine reincarnationist society, a lost flute linked to Ludwig van Beethoven, and David Yalom, a journalist who understands all too well how the past affects the future. David knows loss first hand terrorism is a reality that cost him his family. He’s seen every solution promised by security experts around the world and he’s seen every solution fail. Now, in a concert hall in Vienna, he plans to force the world to understand the cost of those failures in a single, violent act. Because those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it…

The Hypnotist

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 onfinding tools to aid in past life regressions nomatter what the cost in dollars or lives. Everything rests on the shoulders of Lucian Glass, special agent with the FBI s Art Crime Team, who himself is suffering from the aftermath of a brutal attack, impossible nightmares and his own crisis of faith. If reincarnation is real, how can he live with who he was in his past life? If it s not, then how can he live with who he has become in the present?

The Book of Lost Fragrances

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 a dead body in his wake Jac is plunged into a world she thought she’d left behind. Back in Paris to investigate her brother’s disappearance, Jac becomes haunted by the legend the House of L’Etoile has been espousing since 1799. Is there a scent that can unlock the mystery of reincarnation or is it just another dream infused perfume? The Book of Lost Fragrances fuses history, passion, and suspense, moving from Cleopatra’s Egypt and the terrors of revolutionary France to Tibet’s battle with China and the glamour of modern day Paris. Jac’s quest for the ancient perfume someone is willing to kill for becomes the key to understanding her own troubled past.

Lip Service

Crackling with eroticism and suspense, the seductive new book that everyone is talking about probes the secret world of phone sex and one woman who becomes empowered by what she discovers there. Not since Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying has a novel so masterfully mined the relationship between sexuality and identity.

On the surface, Julia Sterling’s life seems blessed. Married to a renowned psychiatrist and living on Manhattan’s 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 woman’s inner life. At the same time, this electrifying thriller grips the reader as it builds toward a shattering climax. M.J. Rose has delivered a debut novel unlike anything yet experienced in erotic fiction. Lip Service establishes her as a powerful storyteller.

In Fidelity

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 she’s 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 husband’s 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 love’s fragile bonds, layers of longing, and the chaos that is human relationships. All the while, a mysterious new patient seems intent on contributing to Jordan’s 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 Robert’s 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.

Flesh Tones

In such erotic thrillers as In Fidelity and Lip Service, acclaimed author M. J. Rose took readers to the darkest edges of desire. Now, in her most riveting novel yet, she leads us across the fine line separating passion and obsession, mercy and murder. In a New York courtroom, a woman stands accused of a controversial crime. Genny Haviland, thirty eight, is said to have drugged and suffocated legendary painter George Gabriel. For two decades the tempestuous Gabriel has challenged audiences with his wild work. And in the end, the prosecution claims, he alienated the woman he first seduced, then enslaved enough to cause his own death at her hands. Yet in Genny’s mind there rests another story, one that started twenty years before…
one in which a college girl on summer break met an older, attractive artist and began a forbidden affair she would never forget, a shadowy, sensual union in which she was more helpless and more powerful than she would ever imagine. Then the discovery of a shocking secret blew it all apart: Genny s father was Jonathan Haviland, the renowned gallery owner who could make or break Gabriel s career. Now Genny contends she was only easing her old lover to a painless death, allowing him to escape the awful illness that was slowly eroding his sanity and self. But is that the whole truth? Or was Gabriel indeed killed but for far more sordid reasons, from a motive driven by scandal and the threat of financial ruin? How much would Genny do for the man she professed to love, or for the father who has always loomed darkly in the background of her life?Peopled with complex and fascinating characters, and capturing the essence of two different and decadent decades, here is the most impressive achievement of an up and coming author. In this irresistible novel, M. J. Rose creates a world where love doesn t last and fame is fleeting…
but desire never ends. From the Hardcover edition.

Sheet Music

From a seductive storyteller who dares to plumb the dark, passionate depths of the heart and soul comes an absorbing new erotic thriller that is also a gripping tale of psychological suspense. Sheet MusicGrief stricken Justine Pagett fled to Paris after her mother’s death, but scandal forces her back to the States to redeem her tarnished reputation as a journalist. Commissioned to write a piece on the eccentric classical composer Sophie DeLyon, Justine finds herself part of a mysterious deception. At Euphonia, the exclusive institution DeLyon created to nurture America s most gifted music prodigies, a malevolent presence is composing a deadly work. Threatening cybermessages meant to intimidate convince a determined Justine that fascinating secrets await her. But when Sophie suddenly disappears, Justine s assignment to mine the story behind the legend becomes an even greater challenge. The disharmonious DeLyon family seems more interested in Sophie s estate than in her artistic legacy, and a group of devoted fans is fiercely defending the name of the enigmatic genius. Wrestling with her own demons while searching for the truth, Justine is clear about one thing: Someone is orchestrating a deadly deceit…
from which no one will emerge unscathed. An expertly crafted opus of obsessive passions and poisonous shame, of brilliant achievements and brutal deception, Sheet Music confirms M. J. Rose s place at the forefront of today s top psychological suspense writers.

Lying In Bed

‘Longing makes you weak. It’s an emotion I’ve managed to avoid for the past eight years.’ There was a time when Marlowe Wyatt had abandoned herself to the unrestrained pleasures of love; she’d been bold and unashamed, giving her heart and body to her lover without inhibition or hesitation. Until she was betrayed. It’s ironic, then, that she now earns a living composing love letters for clients incapable of communicating desire erotic fantasies she skillfully creates with her head, but never her heart…
deliberately disconnected from her passionate core. Her newest client is about to challenge all that. From the moment of their first encounter, Gideon Brown ignites in her an overpowering hunger like none she’s ever known, and a vulnerability she thought she’d vanquished. As the powerful attraction that sizzles between them inspires Marlowe’s best work, sensations and desires she’d long held in check sweep her toward the brink of surrender. Yet her own fear, plus thoughts of the woman for whom Gideon hired Marlowe to write the letters, holds her back. But for how long?

How to Publish and Promote Online

Everything you need to know about profitable online publishing and promotionFrom Stephen King to authors who haven’t become household names quite yet, authors are increasingly turning to the Internet as a way of taking charge of their own publishing destiny. The opportunities are vast, but also confusing: Should you publish an e book, a conventional print book, a Print On Demand book, a CD ROM, or all of the above? What do you need to know to create an e book? How do you set up a website, and how can you actually get people to visit that website? Where can you sell your books on the web? And how can you use the Internet to generate massive free publicity? M. J. Rose and Angela Adair Hoy provide the answers to all of these questions and more. When she self published her first novel, Lip Service, as an e book, M. J. Rose became a ‘cyber pioneer’ PW Daily and attracted so much publicity that she sold the rights to a major book club and a New York publisher. As the co owner of a highly successful e book publisher, Booklocker. com, and the publisher of Writersweekly. com, an e magazine featuring markets for freelance writers, Angela Adair Hoy also learned all of the possibilities that online publishing could offer. Using their own experiences combined with insiders’ tips from other authors on the web they published an e book, The Secrets of Our Success, that became the underground bible for online authors and publishers. Now thoroughly revised and expanded, this book is an indispensable guide to navigating the publishing jungle from you own personal computer.