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"I don't believe in [reincarnation] but I do believe in good writing, and Rose is an unusually skillful storyteller. Her polished prose and intricate plot will grip even the most skeptical reader. Whatever your views on reincarnation, The Memorist is first-rate fiction."
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"Rose's engrossing thriller effortlessly leaps to and fro through the centuries. Dramatic suspense and intriguing characters expertly set the stage for this first in a series."
— Starred Review, Library Journal
"Tale of intrigue that's more believably plotted and better meets its ambitions than Dan Brown's ubiquitous book."
— Starred Publishers Weekly Review
Remember the first book that meant something to you? For me it was THE SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was more than magical; it was deeply mysterious with a garden locked up and hidden behind a stone wall with overgrown trees that reached for the sky. I loved the suspense that coursed through the storyline and kept me turning the pages.
THE SECRET GARDEN also was the first book that made me think about writing a book of my own. One night as my mother read it to me I stopped her and asked if we could go to see the garden the next day. She explained it was make believe. Before this moment, I'd never connected the concept of make believe to books. That night I told my mother that when I grew up I was going to write books about discovering a secret garden.
Writing a suspense novel is very much like uncovering gardens that have been hidden and secreted away. The secrets in new series (THE REINCARNATIONIST and THE MEMORIST) revolve around a subject that has deep significance for many people --- reincarnation. My fascination with this topic began when I was a child and still keeps me fascinated.
In my research I discovered I was in good company: Believers in Reincarnation throughout history include Carl Jung, Rudyard Kipling, Einstein, Ben Franklin, Napoleon, Mark Twain, General George Patton, Louisa May Alcott, Tolstoy, Henry Ford, Goethe, the Baal Shem Tov, Nietzsche, Gandhi, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert Schweitzer, Walt Whitman, Wordsworth, Levi ibn Habib (the Ralbah), Rumi, Thoreau, Socrates, Jesus Christ in the Gnostic Gospels, Voltaire, Josephus, Balzac, Gauguin, Pythagoras, Kabbalists, Hindus, Buddhists and Christians.
I love reading page turners that also give you something to think about, something that resonates and matters after you've finished reading. I hope that’s what my novels do for you.
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