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When nearly 100 members of The Ark, a sinister apocalypse cult, are found dead by poison at their isolated community in North Wales, those left alive are scattered to the winds with few coping skills and fewer answers. For 23-year-old Romy, who has never known life outside the compound, learning how to live in a world she has been taught to fear is terrifying.

If Amber/Jane/Kelan chooses your neighborhood, it is because there is work to do. She will rent a house and be the perfect neighbor for a year, where she will tell you all about an aunt who raised her and passed along a lot of fabulous recipes that she will use to make friends with the other neighbors. Of course, the aunt does not exist. In the community garden, your new neighbor will hide the Poison Hemlock among Queen Anne Lace. If she gives you orange marmalade for your abusive husband, ensure only he eats it. And later, if the police ask you if you want an autopsy, say no.

For Detective Chief Inspector Ryan, the stakes have never been higher. Most of the world thinks he’s dead, killed by an assasin's rifle in his own home. But another man took the bullet intended for him, and now Ryan’s living on borrowed time. As long as he stays ‘dead’, in the sanctuary of his parents’ home in Devon, there’s a chance to find the people behind the deadly killing network. It’s only a matter of time before his secret’s uncovered, and nowhere will be safe.

Garden Glen is a very bland place. Every house and every garden looks exactly like the other. That is... until Millie Fleur La Fae comes to town. Up on a scruffy hill, beside a ramschackle house, Millie Fleur plants her marvelously strange garden, filled with Sneezing Stickyweed, Fanged Fairymoss, and Grumpy Gilliflower. Millie Fleur finds it enchanting, but the townspeople of Garden Glen call it poison! But Millie Fleur is proud of her beloved little garden.

Elise Watters seems to have it all - a blissful marriage, a gorgeous Victorian home surrounded by lush gardens, and a dream job running her late mother’s herbal boutique. But on the eve of her first wedding anniversary, Elise makes a shocking discovery that turns her life upside down and casts doubt on everything she thought she knew - about her marriage, her friends, and even herself.

Briseis has a gift: she can grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms with a single touch. When Briseis’ aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York, Bri and her parents decide to leave Brooklyn behind for the summer. Hopefully there, surrounded by plants and flowers, Bri will finally learn to control her gift. But their new home is sinister in ways they could never have imagined - it comes with a specific set of instructions, an old-school apothecary and a walled garden filled with the deadliest botanicals in the world.

Eliza “Eli” Moore may have been born a seer, but she didn’t want to live like one. That was why she became a private detective, and opened Nine Lives Investigations. Being able to talk to the dead gives her an undeniable edge in solving cases, and she figured it was all for the greater good. Then Eli is forced to exorcise a demon, the local witch elder ends up dead, and Eli fears she’s in over her head.

Riches to rags...Chaos has calmed...At least while out on the lake...Until poison is found, blowing up the peace again...Enjoying a beautiful day on the lake, while Doreen tries her hand at paddleboarding, ends up on an odd note after finding poison in a bed of pansies. She garners a tidbit of information out of her BFF, Corporal Mack Moreau, about a man who’d recently walked into the emergency room, complaining he’d been poisoned.

In a dying West Virginia town, the truth is more toxic than the water. Giovanni Moretti arrives in Ashford chasing the story that will define his career: a chemical plant poisoning its community while corporate lawyers bury the evidence in settlements and silence. What he finds is Beatrice Rappaccini—a twenty-two-year-old woman who has lived her entire life saturated with industrial toxins, her body adapted to contamination in ways that make her both medical marvel and living proof of corporate crime. Beatrice has never left her family's garden, where plants grow in impossible colors, ...

In this beautifully illustrated book that's Song of Achilles meets Secret Life of Trees, readers will discover the plants cultivated by the Greek Gods–many of which can still be experimented with today–for a myriad of uses. In Greek mythology, plants were used for tools, intoxication...

Every dog owner knows the look—the wide, pleading eyes fixed on your plate, the wagging tail filled with hope. It feels natural, even loving, to share food with your loyal companion. Yet what seems like a harmless act of kindness could be one of the gravest mistakes you ever make.

Opening night. A feared critic. Three bites, then collapse. Chef-owner Fiona Firth aims to get through The Perennial’s first dinner service in one piece, not find a body at the pass. Early tests point to monkshood in her seven-herb blend, and the whispers harden: police name Fiona their prime suspect. She spots what others miss: a swapped spice jar, sticky residue on a tasting mug, a camera blind spot no one should reach. Miso, her orange tabby, bristles while the lead detective tells her to stand down. Two others have motive and access: developer Dale Morrison, whose permits hinge on ...

Throughout human history, plants have played a vital role in the development of medicine and herbal remedies, often serving as both healing agents and lethal substances. Among the vast array of flora, many species possess toxic qualities that can pose significant risks if misused. Nevertheless, these poisonous plants have also been harnessed in traditional medicine and contemporary pharmacology to treat various ailments. In this book we will get familiar with the paradoxical nature of poisonous plants, including some flowers- their primary qualities, description of symptoms associated with ...

Maggie Montgomery only wanted to make new friends—but finding a body wasn’t part of the plan. When Maggie arrives at Veronica's greenhouse to pick up her Shady Pines Garden Club membership card, she instead discovers the club’s formidable leader lying dead among the flowers. And as the town’s newest resident, all suspicion falls on Maggie. Determined to clear her name, Maggie teams up with her loyal beagle, Sherlock, and her new friend, Tessa, to dig up the truth. Uncovering the real killer won't be easy in a town where secrets are buried deep, and appearances can be deceiving. With...

Lily Gardner is proud to enter her rare “Midnight’s Bloom” orchid in Willowbrook’s annual flower show, a quiet village celebration of local gardens and rare plants. As part of her Aunt Flora’s legacy. But just as her chance at a prize seems within reach, disaster strikes when local gardener Rupert Dyer is found dead. The village quickly descends, into a flurry of rumors, and suspicion falls on Lily. Determined to clear her name and protect The Garden Gate, her beloved greenhouse, Lily sets out to uncover the truth along with the truth of her beloved Aunt Flora’s death. But what ...

Flowers may look pretty, but some can be downright deadly! In England, you can explore the Poison Garden—a place where flowers are known for their beauty on the outside and poison on the inside! In this story, you'll be able to learn about and see these flowers safely without interacting with them.

In the early 1900s, a young gardener at a lush English manor falls in love with her employer whose past is shrouded in deadly secrets—from the author of the “twisty, Gothic thriller” (Entertainment Weekly) Spitting Gold. 1922, Wiltshire: When Vee Morgan accepts the job of gardener at a...

There’s a murdered mayor on Main Street and Winnie’s pup finds a secret poison garden in her new small town. Flamingos cause chaos and felonies follow… Former banker Winnie Cooper inherits more than a café. She gets troublesome town hall colliding with guerrilla gardeners, corporate vultures picking apart Juniper Point, a corpse in the courtyard and her new best buddy is blamed! Luckily, she has friends on her side - quirky and quaint gossiping grandmas. The butcher beside her is grumpy but gracious. Best of all she has her sidekick Jack Russell terrier - Cookie, intent on tennis ...

Trouble is brewing stronger than dark roast at the Stitch & Sip Cafe... Spring has sprung in Havenwood, and Piper Pratt is serving up coffee and pastries trackside at the newly established Community Garden. But amidst the blossoming flowers and budding vegetables, competitive spirits and petty tyrannies are taking root, all thanks to the garden's overbearing overlord, Harold Plummer. His reign of horticultural terror, governed by his infamous "Harmony Handbook," has cultivated a patch full of resentment. When Harold collapses face-first into the petunias after sipping tea during the ...

Die dreizehnjährige Ivy ist alles andere als begeistert, als sie auf den englischen Landsitz zu ihrem kauzigen Großvater ziehen soll. Richard Carlton redet nicht viel, hat nur seinen verwunschenen Garten im Kopf und verbietet Ivy sogar, einen Teil davon zu betreten: den sogenannten Poison Garden, der mit schmiedeeisernen Toren vom Rest des Anwesens getrennt ist. Doch dann schneit es auf einmal mitten im Spätsommer, Ivy hört seltsame Gesänge und sieht unheimliche Gestalten. Kurz darauf ist ihr Großvater wie vom Erdboden verschluckt. Seine Spur führt geradewegs in den Giftgarten.