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📘 The Apothecary's Daughter by Charlotte Betts

Susannah Leyton grew up amid the fizzy, resinous aromas of her father's apothecary, mastering herbal medicines and earning the respect of the austere Doctor William Ambrose. Though content with her quiet life, she is thrown into turmoil when her widowed father remarries, sparking conflict with a new stepmother. A sudden marriage proposal from Henry Savage, William’s charming cousin, seems to promise happiness, yet Henry carries a stormy secret from his father’s Barbadian plantation. As a plague descends on London, tragedy forces the buried truths of Henry’s past to surface, irrevocably reshaping Susannah’s world.

First publish date: 2011

Genre: Historical Fiction/Medieval Historical Fiction

Authors: Charlotte Betts

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