num_pages: 366
description: Possession. Power. Passion. New York Times bestselling novelist M. J. Rose creates her most provocative and magical spellbinder yet in this gothic novel set against the lavish spectacle of 1890s Belle poque Paris.Sandrine Salome flees New York for her grandmothers Paris mansion to escape her dangerous husband but what she finds there is even more menacing. The house famous for its lavish art collection and elegant salons is mysteriously closed up. Although her grandmother insists its dangerous for Sandrine to visit she defies her and meets Julien Duplessi a mesmerizing young architect. Together they explore the hidden night world of Paris the forbidden occult underground and Sandrines deepest desires.Among the bohemians and the demi-monde Sandrine discovers her erotic nature as a lover and painter. Then darker influences threatenher cold and cruel husband is tracking her down and something sinister is taking hold changing Sandrine altering her. Shes become possessed by La Lune: A witch a legend and a sixteenth-century courtesan who opens up her life to a darkness that may become a gift or a curse.This is Sandrines wild night of the soul her odyssey in the magnificent city of Paris of art love and witchery.
language: English
title: The Witch of Painted Sorrows
publisher: Atria Books