The Poisoned Queen

A young apothecary's daughter kneels at a Catholic altar with Protestant prayers still burning on her tongue, tasting every dish before it reaches the most feared woman in France. Agnès Vasseur has lost her father to a rival's denunciation and her identity to survival. Now serving as Catherine de' Medici's poison taster in the treacherous corridors of the Louvre, she uncovers a conspiracy that could ignite a war of religion — and realizes the only person she can trust is the queen everyone calls a murderer.