Melissa P.’s fictionalized memoir, 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed, became an international literary phenomenon, selling over two million copies worldwide and inspiring profiles in Vanity Fair and The New York Times, as well as a warning from the pope. And all this before her eighteenth birthday. The Scent of Your Breath, the second installment in her series of confessions, is a tale of obsessive love and destructive passion that is instinctive and romantic, dreamlike and sensual, relentless and touching” #0516R