Plagued by rumours that she poisoned her fiance, Lucinda Bromley manages to live on the fringes of polite society, tending her beloved plants - and occasionally consulting on a murder investigation. For the notorious botanist possesses a unique talent: she can detect almost any type of poison. But the death of a lord has shaken Lucinda to her core. At the murder scene, she picks up traces of a poison containing a very rare species of fern - stolen from her conservatory just last month.
To keep her name out of the investigation, and to find the murderer, Lucinda hires fellow Arcane Society member, Caleb Jones. As a nearly overwhelming desire blooms between them, they are drawn into a deadly conspiracy that can be traced to the early days of the Arcane Society - and to a legacy of madness that could plunge Caleb into the depths of his own tortured soul...
| ISBN: | 9780749909468 |
| Publication date: | 15th April 2010 |
| Author: | Amanda Quick, Jayne Ann Krentz |
| Publisher: | Piatkus an imprint of Little, Brown |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 342 pages |
| Series: | An Arcane Society Novel |
| Genres: |
Historical Fiction |