Rose of Málaga

Rose, a quiet and unassertive young violinist at the New England Conservatory is in love with the esteemed Maestro Johansson. However, when their love affair is exposed, Rose abandons the rehearsal room and tries to adapt to her suburban hometown but instead faces a vicious cycle of self-destruction and loneliness. When she finds the pressures to maintain her success and the restlessness of her life unbearable, she retreats to an undiscovered world. Rose finds herself reaching out to be what seems the least likely people in her life for inspiration and soon becomes fiercely independent and liberated by a journey all her own. A story about a young woman's romantic coming-of-age, Rose of M laga takes us to that distant place of a young woman's first, hopeless, and heroic love.

Bobbi Verdugo was born and raised in Torrance, CA and graduated from NYU. She has been a freelance writer and contributor for WWD, CBS News and Cosmopolitan, Hong Kong and is influenced by such writers as Haruki Murakami and Hermann Hesse. Rose of Málaga of is her first novel.