Praise for The Halo Effect "Potentially explosive… Rose's latest is not for the squeamish... [Dr. Morgan Snow] is an engaging guide to the world of dysfunction that Rose painstakingly constructs." –Publisher's Weekly "The Halo Effect is tense, engrossing, and sometimes so real it's frightening." - Linda Richards, editor of January Magazine "I dare you to read the first five pages of THE HALO EFFECT and not be in its thrall: this is a compulsive artful page-turner of a novel. Suspenseful, sleek, and sexy, this is M. J. Rose at her best." -Doug Clegg, author of The Hour Before Dark "Dr. Morgan Snow is a refreshingly vulnerable character whose spunky decision…

Praise for In Fidelity "As in her previous book, M.J. Rose links suspense with the roiling conflict of the human heart, giving us a veritable debauch of sturm und drang and psychodrama neatly tied together with taut, economical prose. Not to be missed."-- Gary S. Kadet, author of D/s and SexGeek and Crime Editor of The Boston Book Review Reviews   Reviews Also In Fidelity Sheet Music Lip Service Flesh Tones The Halo Effect The Delilah Complex Excerpt Chapter One My daughter stood beyond the fieldstone fence that separated the house from the beach. From the kitchen window, Lilly's slight form was silhouetted against the sunset and the sea. In…

Press Inquiries To contact M.J. about an interview, appearance or other engagement, please e-mail her.     ART BY NUMBERSAmazon ruleBY CLEA SIMON If we, the literate public, believe that information is empowering, then it stands to reason that we should applaud Amazon.com’s new "concordance" and "text-stat" features. These services, launched with no fanfare in early March, offer statistical analyses of books by measuring such elements as word repetition, average number of syllables per word, and words per sentence. These features (which seem to have been applied primarily to current works by contemporary authors — no Jane Austen, for instance — and Amazon isn’t saying why) also provide the "Fog…

Praise for The Delilah Complex "The second in the series starring sex therapist Morgan Snow is a big leap forward from 2004's THE HALO EFFECT, mostly because of the social underpinnings about the psychology of female sexuality and why it's so unbelievably difficult to accept that women can desire and demand pleasure. But this is, of course, a suspense novel, and one that's awfully hard to stop reading with some unexpected twists to close things out."Recommended by Sarah Weinman, Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind "Rose excels at creating multifaceted characters and atmospheric, quickly paced stories with a twist. This is all of those things and more." Four Stars -Romantic Times…

Praise for Lip Service "M. J. Rose blends the dark eroticism of Anais Nin with the lusty cravings of Erica Jong, and delivers a refreshingly open look at a modern woman?s coming of age."-- Katharine Neville - Author of The Eight Reviews   Reviews Also In Fidelity Sheet Music Lip Service Flesh Tones The Halo Effect The Delilah Complex Excerpt Chapter One September 23, 1996 FIVE WEEKS EARLIER Like most visitors to the New York Botanical Garden, I'd always seen them during the day in sunshine when the colors of the flowers and foliage were bright and their groomed perfection was obvious. But that evening, as we rode up the…