Joshua Steadman, the mayor of a small town on the outskirts of Washington DC, is on the fast track to the United States Senate. He has all the makings of a voter-friendly politician. He’s handsome, charismatic, and has the perfect first lady who is more popular than him. Unfortunately for the mayor, his wife becomes sick and, on the eve of her death, comes clean about a disturbing lie she told him about his first love and sexual obsession, the enigmatic Rose Umbra. The truth changes everything he thought he knew about his wife and resurrects his obsession that died the day his wife told him the lie. Now his enigmatic ghost from his past haunts his every move and disrupts all his big plans he made with his wife’s replacement. " Enigma Rose is not a standard heartbreak-to-healing love story, and leads readers through an emotional maze before reaching its dramatic end, conveying a relatable tale of loneliness, desperation, and our growing inability to communicate our wants and needs. This is an original romantic thriller that will satisfy readers of a wide breadth of genres: romance, thrillers, and character-driven contemporary fiction. Weaving family, grief, power, and sex in a complex dramatic puzzle, this novel is a uniquely multilayered and entertaining page-turner." Self-Publishing Review, ★★★★½