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A Slow and Secret Poison by Carmella Lowkis

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Also by Carmella Lowkis:

A Slow and Secret Poison, February 2026
Hardcover / e-Book
Spitting Gold, May 2025
Trade Paperback
Spitting Gold, May 2024
Hardcover / e-Book

A SLOW AND SECRET POISON
By: Carmella Lowkis

A Novel

Atria Books
February 2026
On Sale: February 10, 2026
288 pages
ISBN: 1668024985
EAN: 9781668024980
Kindle: B0DKQ6QT3B
Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical | Suspense Gothic

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.

1922, Wiltshire: When Vee Morgan accepts the job of gardener at a crumbling stately home in southwest England, she’s hoping it’s a fresh start.

But Harfold Manor is shadowed by its own grief and the memories of long-faded glory, its rooms haunted by the only surviving member of the family, Lady Arabella Lascy. Vee is fascinated by her enigmatic new employer, a woman obsessed with the curse she believes has killed her family one by one and is coming for her next. Her only hope for escape is a local folktale: the elusive dancing hare that gave her ancestor its blessing and the house its name.

But even as Vee falls deeper under the thrall of Harfold and Lady Arabella, her own dark past finally catches up to her in this lush and atmospheric novel.