rose marks was sentenced to just over ten years in federal prison on march 3, 2014 for defrauding clients of her family's fortune-telling businesses out of more than $17.8 million. she was convicted of scamming numerous clients, including best-selling romance novelist jude deveraux, who was a client since 1991. victims testified that she convinced them she could swap people's souls between bodies, prevent a woman from conceiving via in vitro fertilization and even use her psychic powers to prevent the internal revenue service from going after them for taxes.