The thrilling and unputdownable new novel from bestselling author of The Clockwork Girl, Anna Mazzola!
''Vividly alive with menace, magic, and mystery''ESSIE FOX
''A vivid and atmospheric historical adventure''DAILY MAIL
''A writer of great variety and inventiveness. A haunting, complex work''THE TIMES
Rome, 1659.
Some secrets are worth dying for...
Girolama Spana lives west of the river Tiber in a house marked by a lily and a garden full of herbs. Many women in Rome seek her help - although they would never admit it - eager for her mysterious balms, her love potions, and her ability to predict their futures.
Even against the splendour of the Eternal City, Giroloma''s secret recipes are the women''s most precious possessions - and their husbands'' most feared. So when men are reported dying in unnatural numbers, the gaze of Stefano Bracchi, pros
