The perfume of poison

What if love became a silent weapon?Éliane, a beautiful, brilliant and wealty woman, carries within her a past that we would never guess.As a teenager , she killed her father , an alcoholic executioner , before spending fifteen long yearsbehind bars.Upon her release, she inherits an immense fortune, but also her demons. Behind her femme fatalefacade hides a devouring obsession: having children... but not hers.Unable to give birth, refused adoption, she develops a dangerous attraction for married men andtheir families. Until the day she thinks she has found the ideal family. His. The one she will inventat all costs.A dizzying descent into the mind of a broken woman, where motherhood, madness and violenceintertwine to the point of no return.This novel, both disturbing and deeply human, questions the boundaries between love andpossession, between injury and crime, between oblivion... and memory.