


But someone the Cult of the Archangel, it is rumored is murdering London's apothecaries, believing that members of the Apothecary's Guild are concealing a dangerous secret. Fourteen-year-old orphan Christopher Rowe is lucky to be apprenticed to a kindly apothecary, Master Benedict Blackthorn.

First-time novelist Sands has written an exciting and self-assured tale of alchemy and dark secrets set during the late-17th-century reign of King Charles II.
