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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.

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.  

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.

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.

Durga Varma may be a princess, but she's the last one you'd expect. An introverted geek with a penchant for dodging challenges, Durga couldn't be less interested in botany - a subject her renowned father, King, and Dr. Harish Varma is famous for worldwide. When her parents suffer an accident, Durga finds herself as the sole guardian of an ancient and powerful mystery that could unleash unimaginable destruction if in the wrong hands. The clock is ticking for Durga and her friends to decipher cryptic botanical riddles shrouded for centuries, with a deadly enemy on their trail.

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 Victorian academy built on secrets, assassins, and whispered betrayals, she arrives with a false name… and a talent the faculty can’t trace. Her gift with poisons should have kept her hidden in the shadows — instead, it draws the attention of the academy’s four most dangerous students. A Duelist born of nobility with a blade as sharp as his hunger. An Apothecary whose ink-stained hands know exactly where to touch. A Spy who hides behind masks and watches her like he already owns her. A Saboteur who builds explosions with the same care he uses to unmake her breath. They shouldn’t want her.

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.

London, 1668. The monarchy has been restored—but the city is still rebuilding its soul. Margaret Hale is an anomaly in Restoration England: an independent, guild-recognized apothecary and botanist who rebuilt her Cheapside shop after the Great Fire and answers to no patron but her own discipline. Her knowledge is precise, dangerous, and carefully contained—recorded in a physick book she guards as fiercely as her glasshouse of poisonous plants. Étienne Moreau moves in a different world. A French physician trained on the Continent and bound by loyalty to Charles II, he occupies an uneasy...

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...

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. In 1925, Vee Morgan arrives at Harfold Manor, a once-grand country...

Bloomsbury presents This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron, read by Jordan Cobb. Darkness blooms in bestselling author Kalynn Bayron’s new contemporary fantasy about a girl with a unique and deadly power. Briseis has a gift: with a single touch she can grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms...

Where Romy grew up, if someone died you never spoke of them again. Now 22, she has recently escaped the toxic confines of the cult she was raised in. But Romy is young, pregnant and completely alone - and if she is to keep herself safe in this new world, she has some important lessons to learn. Like how there are some people you can trust, and some you must fear. And about who her family really is, and why her mother ran away from them all those years ago.

Thomas has inherited a magical box from his dead grandmother which provides entry into a mysterious garden where her ghost warns him she was poisoned. For once she belonged to an arcane guild whose members each cultivated a garden and mastered the arts of poison, perfume and medicine. The remaining guilds members jostle for power as one by one, they are murdered. Can Thomas solve the mystery before he in turn is threatened?

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 ...

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...

A deadly harvest is blooming on the edge of the world. Rowan Adler is tackling her most dangerous DIY restoration yet: the massive, multi-tiered Victorian glass conservatory clinging precariously to the edge of the island's eastern cliffs. Inside is a sweltering jungle of dead vines and out-of-place flora. But when her botanical surveyor is poisoned in the center of the glasshouse, Rowan realizes someone has been secretly cultivating a garden of lethal toxins on her property. The corporate developer hasn't given up; they’ve simply hired a master of poisons. When Rowan's beloved wolfhound,...

Mary Wester, who grew up near Wichita, Kansas, raises all kinds of sunflowers, tall and dwarf, yellow and red, and some the color of cherry chocolate. When Mary’s daughter develops migraine headaches, the family trades red sunflower seeds for plants that may help with health and healing. Explore what Mary receives and why people are growing what they grow and share. Interspersed are recipes for teas, tinctures, herbal medicines, aromatherapy, soaps, salves, and growing tips, as well as stories from the point of view of Red, the sunflower who grew all the red sunflower seeds, Mary sends ...