Belle is obsessed with beauty, just like her estranged mother, Noelle. When Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle returns to Southern California, grappling with the lingering questions surrounding her mother's death. Soon after the funeral, a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience lures Belle to La Maison de Meduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her obsession with her reflection--and what lurks beyond the glass.

With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, the cultlike nature of the beauty industry, and the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze.

384 pgs