Everything Is Poison

Early Seventeenth-Century Rome For as long as she can remember, Carmela Tofana has desperately wanted one thing: to be a part of La Tofanas, her mothers apothecary in Campo Marzio, Rome. When she finally turns sixteen, shes allowed into the inner sanctum: the workroom where her mother and two assistants craft renowned remedies for their customers. But for every sweet-smelling flower extract in the workroom, theres another potion requiring darker ingredients. And then theres Aqua Tofana, the apothecarys remedy of last resort. In all Carmelas years of wishing to follow in her mothers footsteps, she never realised one tiny vial could be the death of them all. Everything Is Poison is a story of a deadly secret hiding in plain sight and of the women who risk everything to provide care for those with nowhere else to turn.