Poison Priestess (Lady Slayers #2)

In seventeenth century Parls, nineteen-year-old Catherine Monvolsin Is a well-heeled Jeweler's wife with a pecullar taste for the arcane. She Ives a comfortable life, far removed from a childhood of abject destitution-until her kind spendthrift of a husband lands them both In debt. Hellbent on avolding a return to poverty, Catherine must rely on her prophetic vislons and the grimolre gifted to her by a talented diviner to reinvent herself as a sorceress. With the help of the grifter Marle Bosse, CatherIne divines fortunes In the le de la Cité-home to sorcerers and scoundrels.

There she encounters the Marquise de Montespan, a stunning noblewoman. When the Marquise becomes Louls XIV's royal mistress with Catherine's help, her ascenslon catapults Catherine to notorlety. Catherine takes easly to her glittering new life as the Sorceress La Volsin, pitting the depraved noblesse agalnst one other to her advantage. The stakes soar ever higher when her path crosses with that of a young magiclan. A charged rivalry between sorceress and magiclan leads to Black Masses, tangled deceptions, and gristly murder-and sets Catherine on a collision course that threatens her own life.