num_pages: 370
description: 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 Cleopatraand lost for 2000 years.Jac LEtoile 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 remembrancesand of her mothers suicideshe moves to America leaving the company in the hands of her brother Robbie. But when Robbie hints at an earth-shattering discovery in the family archives and then suddenly goes missingleaving a dead body in his wakeJac is plunged into a world she thought shed left behind.Back in Paris to investigate her brothers disappearance Jac discovers a secret the House of LEtoile has been hiding since 1799: a scent that unlocks the mysteries of reincarnation. The Book of Lost Fragrances fuses history passion and suspense moving from Cleopatras Egypt and the terrors of revolutionary France to Tibets battle with China and the glamour of modern-day Paris. Jacs quest for the ancient perfume someone is willing to kill for becomes the key to understanding her own troubled past.
language: English
title: The Book of Lost Fragrances
publisher: Atria Books