Underlying Notes is a new romance novel with a perfume twist:
More than a cocktail for hot flashes and fluctuating libido, Underlying Notes strews crumbs of callousness, blame, self-sacrifice, repression, and restlessness along the unmarked trails of introspection and reinvention weaving through Carla Matteo's journey to find her own niche in the Second Act of life.
Fragrance addiction numbs the pain of her father's tragic death, wards off the sting of a severed adolescent friendship…