Told across two timelines, The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner is a story about women who will do whatever it takes to survive. In the 1800s, an apothecary in London becomes a place where women who need to get rid of troublemaking men know they can go for help. Meanwhile, in the modern day, a historian named Caroline Parcewell is about to make a discovery about the apothecary murders that will turn her life upside down.