BOOKS

My debut novel BECOMING JOSEPHINE releases in January 2014 from Plume/Penguin and also from De Kern/ De Fontein Books in 2015, a publisher in Holland.

This is not my cover, but since I don’t have one yet, I thought I’d share a picture I love of Josephine. Here she is relaxed, a woman comfortable in her own skin with effortless grace and beauty.

Book Blurb

Rose Tascher sails from her Martinique plantation to Paris to trade her Creole black magic culture for love and adventure. She arrives exultant to follow her dreams of attending Court with Alexandre, her elegant aristocrat and soldier husband. But Alexandre dashes her hopes and abandons her amid the tumult of the French Revolution.

Through her savoir faire, Rose secures her footing in high society, reveling in handsome men and glitzy balls—until the heads of her friends begin to roll.

After narrowly escaping death in the blood-drenched cells of Les Carmes prison, she reinvents herself as Josephine, a socialite of status and power. Yet her youth is fading, and Josephine must choose between a precarious independence and the love of an awkward suitor. Little does she know, he would become the most powerful man of his century- Napoleon Bonaparte.

BECOMING JOSEPHINE is a novel of one woman’s journey to find eternal love and stability, and ultimately to find herself.

Find it on Goodreads.

Media

BECOMING JOSEPHINE in the Wall Street Journal