Francesca could easily have an ordinary life with a husband and child and she sometimes thinks about it. As the Twitter and Facebook accounts haven't been updated in a few years, I think it's unlikely there will be more than the three books.I'm disappointed as I fell a little bit in love with Sara Poole's Francesca. In fact, the Sara Poole site is no longer in existence and Goodreads indicates Sara Poole is a pseudonym for a New York Times bestselling author who wanted to write historical fiction. Poole felt there could be as many as a dozen books in the series but to date only three have been written. According to the Reading Group Gold interview with Poole, each was written as a stand alone book. This is the second book in the Poisoners Mystery series. The premise behind this book, about a court poisoner was most interesting. I began watching the tv series but I don't recall if I finished the first season or not. This book came out after the first season of The Borgias began to air. From the hidden crypts of fifteenth-century Rome to its teeming streets alive with sensuality, obsession, and treachery, Francesca must battle the demons of her own dark nature to unravel a plot to destroy the Borgias, seize control of Christendom, and plunge the world into eternal darkness.

As court poisoner to the most notorious and dangerous family in Italy, this mistress of death faces a web of peril, intrigue, and deceit that threatens to extinguish the light of the Renaissance.Īs dangers close in from every direction, Francesca conceives a desperate plan that puts her own life at risk and hurls her into a nightmare confrontation with a madman intent on destroying all she is pledged to protect. Having played a crucial role in helping him ascend the chair of Saint Peter, Francesca, haunted by the shadows of her own past, is now charged with keeping him there. In the summer of 1493, Rodrigo Borgia, Alexander VI, has been pope for almost a year. More deadly.įrom the author of Poison, called 'stunning'* and 'a fascinating page-turner,' comes a new historical thriller, featuring the same intriguing and beautiful heroine: Borgia court poisoner, Francesca Giordano. Before the Tudors, there were the Borgias.

Poison by Sara Poole