And instead of her grandmother's warning, Sandrine explores the life and times of that mystifying painter and gradually falls for the handsome architect. When Sandrine asked her grandmother about it, she receives a fierce reply. Together they explore a secret room filled with paintings by an artist named, La Lune. The architect of their mansion, Julien Duplessi is captivated by Sandrine's charm and grace from the very first sight. Unfortunately, she finds her childhood mansion where she grew up to be locked and vacant and under renovation. Sandrine Salome flees from her abusive husband's home in New York to her grandmother's mansion in Paris. This is Sandrine’s “wild night of the soul,” her odyssey in the magnificent city of Paris, of art, love, and witchery.

She’s 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. Then darker influences threaten-her cold and cruel husband is tracking her down and something sinister is taking hold, changing Sandrine, altering her. Together they explore the hidden night world of Paris, the forbidden occult underground and Sandrine’s deepest desires.Īmong the bohemians and the demi-monde, Sandrine discovers her erotic nature as a lover and painter. Although her grandmother insists it’s dangerous for Sandrine to visit, she defies her and meets Julien Duplessi, a mesmerizing young architect.

The house, famous for its lavish art collection and elegant salons, is mysteriously closed up. Sandrine Salome flees New York for her grandmother’s Paris mansion to escape her dangerous husband, but what she finds there is even more menacing. Rose, a New York Times bestselling novelist, weaves an enchanting and romantic tale called, The Witch of Painted Sorrows which is the first book in The Daughters of La Lune series, that traces the life of a possessed-by-a-witch's-soul young woman's journey through Paris, passion, witchy-drama, revenge and lots of art.

The witch of painted sorrows