![]() ![]() After planning to go on vacation with him for their 10th anniversary, she instead embarks on a road to discovery that begins with digging through the mud near the river Thames. In present-day London, once-aspiring historian Caroline is reeling after discovering her husband has been cheating on her. When her newest customer turns out to be a 12-year-old girl named Eliza, the surprised apothecary is thrown into a series of events that jeopardizes her livelihood and threatens to expose all the women recorded in her register and the men they had poisoned. ![]() Known for her knowledge of the trade, the once-healing apothecary has turned to more sinister dealings, providing women with well-disguised poisons to rid themselves of the men in their lives for varying reasons. But behind the wall waits Nella the apothecary and her shop of remedies and concoctions. Just inside is an empty storeroom with dusty shelves and a barrel of barley, seemingly undisturbed and uninhabited. O n a small, unassuming street aptly named Back Alley, a door sits in London in the late 18th century. ![]()
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