A Beautiful Poison

✍ Scribed by Lydia Kang

• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 233 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Just beyond the Gilded
Age, in the mist-covered streets of New York, the deadly Spanish
influenza ripples through the city. But with so many victims in her
close circle, young socialite Allene questions if the flu is really to
blame. All appear to have been poisonedand every death was accompanied
by a mysterious note.

Desperate for answers and dreading her own
engagement to a wealthy gentleman, Allene returns to her passion for
scientific discovery and recruits her long-lost friends, Jasper and
Birdie, for help. The investigation brings her closer to Jasper, an
apprentice medical examiner at Bellevue Hospital who still holds her
heart, and offers the delicate Birdie a last-ditch chance to find a safe
haven before her fragile health fails.

As more of their friends
and family die, alliances shift, lives become entangled, and the three
begin to suspect everyoneeven each other. As they race to find the
culprit, Allene, Birdie, and Jasper must once again trust each other,
before one of them becomes the next victim.