You’re Magical as Fuck.

Circe meets The Lost Apothecary in the first book of this historical fantasy duology featuring Ancient Rome’s most infamous poisoner who changed the course of history to save the woman she loved.
 

Daughter of the last surviving Druid in Gaul, Locusta is bound to a death god, enslaved, and taken to the empire’s shining heart, where her gift for crafting poisons makes her a powerful weapon among Rome’s elite.

But when she falls in love with Livia, the emperor Caligula’s golden-haired, ambitious cousin, Locusta no longer wields her lethal talents just to survive. Compelled by revenge and by love, she must protect the woman who holds
her heart and the dangerous secrets that threaten to destroy them—all with a cunning, red-eyed god of death whispering in her ear.

This first book in the Poisoned Empire Duology follows the one of history’s most complex women, examining her bloodied hands through a lens of myth, power, and feminine rage. Rich with ruthless twists, deadly magic, and a sapphic love story that burns from sweet to spicy, Locusta is a story of survival, defiance, and the dangerous alchemy of love and death in a world ruled by men.