The Ghost Don's Poison Bride

Black Hollow took me in when I was a child. I learned only the basics of medicine, but when it came to poison, I mastered it.

From capos with real power to street soldiers hustling on corners, anyone who took one of my poisons had no more than three days left.

Not even Dr. Matteo could undo what I made.

The day I left, he gave me a rosary and told me to use it whenever my temper started to rise.

I remembered.

For seven years, I moved from neighborhood to neighborhood and became the kind of doctor people trusted, the gentle woman who helped anyone who came to her door.