Aqua Tofana: Giulia: The Woman Behind the Brand (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798245530673)

Rome whispers about a poison that looks like holy water.

They call it Aqua Tofana-a saint-faced bottle passed hand to hand, a rumour with a price, a promise made to desperate wives behind shuttered windows. Men call it evil. Priests call it temptation. The streets call it justice.

But Giulia knows what it really is: a brand built in the cracks of a city that leaves women no safe exits.

When a quiet network of laundresses, servants and midwives begins to fray under pressure-boots on stone, coins offered for silence, and the Church leaning close-Giulia must protect the one person she cannot afford to lose: her daughter. Together they move through Rome disguised as ordinary women, trading in thread-signs and whispered warnings, as a private hunt threatens to become official.

Told in Giulia's intimate voice and grounded in historical record, AQUA TOFANA is a dark, atmospheric true-crime historical novel about survival, motherhood, and the stories men tell when they need a devil.

In the end, Rome will keep chewing.