Rome, 1656

In Rome’s shadowy backstreets lies an apothecary’s shop – a place for women to take their heartbreaks and troubles. Herbs for childbirth. Tarot readings to tell their fortunes. An undetectable poison that can kill in four drops.

Alongside her circle of female poisoners, Giulia Tofana dispenses her deadly potion to free the downtrodden women of the city from their abusive husbands. A path she’s determined to follow after a harrowing childhood in Palermo.

But even in a time of plague, it does not go unnoticed when the men begin to fall like flies.

With the Holy Office of the Inquisition on her tail, Giulia is in more danger than ever. . How far will she go for the women who need her help?

MURDERER OR SAVIOUR? YOU DECIDE.

A POISONER'S TALE explores the realities of what it is like to be a woman who rebels against society and takes the reader on a tense, challenging but spellbinding journey.

A tree and its impact on the inhabitants of a nearby cottage and manor house over the last century or so is the theme of this compelling tale. We enter a world where humans and spirits mingle with sometimes surprising results. The setting is the remote but beautiful wilds of the Yorkshire moors. You will come to understand the harshness of the winters and the tragedy the cottage and manor house has seen through the years; the pain and anguish of the residents is firmly lodged in the walls of thee buildings. What sights they have seen, what memories they hold, what a fertile breeding ground for the host of spirits and souls that burst from the pages of this surprising and original story. We discover a host of beings, and have the opportunity to enter the lives of a multitude of compelling characters as we journey from a time when living was usually simple and unsophisticated into the end of the last century where the focus of all our lives changed dramatically.