Blue-Collar Wooler
Life has changed for Deana Weber. Laid off from her city library job, she has moved to the quaint village of Fox Cove, in central Pennsylvania, where she is now living in a charming Georgian style cottage, has a new job, and also has a garden shed full of angora rabbits. Of course, her new life comes with a few challenges. Besides the dozen rabbits in her inexperienced care, she also has to manage the installation and opening of the new village mobile library and try to navigate her way through a budding romance. For a young woman on the brink of turning thirty, who is just trying to cope with a nine-to-five work day, Deana is learning that long-term commitments that require her to step out of her comfort zone may be the hardest work of all. To top it all off, there's also the mystery of a woman lying near death outside of her new library! It would seem that a librarian's work is never quite done.
poisons
Poison has held a role in fiction since ancient times. Medea killed her rival with poisoned clothing. Romeo 'pretends' to kill himself with a poison potion that makes him appear dead. And then there's the Brewster sisters in Arsenic and Old Lace who fortify their elderberry wine with a little arsenic. My favorite poison-penned story is Nathaniel Hawthorne's Rappaccini's Daughter; sixteenth century Renaissance Italy with the tragic Beatrice is like having DC Comic's Poison Ivy in a Brontë novel.
One of the most fascinating tours I've ever taken was visiting a poison garden. Surrounding yourself with beautiful but deadly plants that could kill you is a very humbling experience. I highly recommend it.
What would your poison of choice be? (in your novel, of course)