The Apothecary’s Curse – Barbara Barnett
This genre-bending urban fantasy mixes alchemy and genetics as a doctor and an apothecary try to prevent a pharmaceutical company from exploiting the book that made them immortal centuries ago. In Victorian London, the fates of physician Simon Bell and apothecary Gaelan Erceldoune entwine when Simon gives his wife an elixir created by Gaelan from an ancient manuscript. Meant to cure her cancer, it kills her. Suicidal, Simon swallows the remainderβonly to find he cannot die.Β Five years later, hearing rumors of a Bedlam inmate with regenerative powers like his own, Simon is shocked to discover itβs Gaelan. The two men conceal their immortality, but the only hope of reversing…