Jac L'Etoile has always been haunted by the past, her memories infused
with the exotic scents that she grew up surrounded by as the heir to a
storied French perfume company. In order to flee the pain of those
remembrances--and of her mother's suicide--she moved to America. Now,
fourteen years later she and her brother have inherited the company
along with it's financial problems. But when her Robbie hints at an
earth-shattering discovery in the family archives and then suddenly goes
missing--leaving a dead body in his wake--Jac is plunged into a world
she thought she'd left behind. Back in Paris to investigate her
brother's disappearance, Jac becomes haunted by the legend the House of
L'Etoile has been espousing since 1799. Is there a scent that can unlock
the mystery of reincarnation - or is it just another dream infused
perfume? The Book of Lost Fragrances fuses history, passion, and
suspense, moving from Cleopatra's Egypt and the terrors of revolutionary
France to Tibet's battle with China and the glamor of modern-day Paris.
Jac's quest for the ancient perfume someone is willing to kill for
becomes the key to understanding her own troubled past.