An Affair of Poisons

No one looks kindly on the killer of a king.Fast-paced and refreshing. - SLJ, starred reviewThe perfect blend of history and dark fantasy. - Mary Taranta, author of Shimmer and BurnThrilling, romantic, and addictive. - Rosalyn Eves, author of Blood Rose RebellionThe only cure is to finish it. - Lyndsay Ely, author of Gunslinger GirlAfter unwittingly helping her mother poison King Louis XIV, seventeen-year-old alchemist Mirabelle Monvoisin is forced to see her mothers Shadow Society in a horrifying new light: theyre not heroes of the people, as theyve always claimed to be, but murderers. Herself included. Mira tries to ease her guilt by brewing helpful curatives, but her hunger tonics and headache remedies cannot right past wrongs or save the dissenters her mother vows to purge.Royal bastard Josse de Bourbon is more kitchen boy than fils de France. But when the Shadow Society assassinates the Sun King and half of the royal court, he must become the prince he was never meant to be in order to save his injured sisters and the petulant dauphin. Forced to hide in the sewers beneath the city, Josses hope of reclaiming Paris seems impossibleuntil his path collides with Mirabelles.Shes a deadly poisoner. Hes a bastard prince. They are sworn enemies, yet they form a tenuous pact to unite the commoners and former nobility against the Shadow Society. But can a rebellion built on mistrust ever hope to succeed?