Choose:
a quick death...
or slow poison...
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
agonizing death from the poison.
As Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting.
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....