Choose: A quick death… or a slow poison…
An inventive, compelling novel by a talented newcomer, Poison Study has magic, adventure and excitement you can almost taste… About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve: She’ll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace—and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.
And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly’s Dust. And only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonising death from the poison. As Yelena wrestles with this new dilemma, disasters continue to mount… Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she can’t control. Her life is threatened again and choices must be made.
But this time the outcomes aren’t so clear…
