A little while later she is allowed to go to the annual Fire Festival. When she finds a note saying 'Murderer the noose awaits you,' Valek decides to move her into his suite of rooms for extra protection. Slowly she begins to make friends with the cook, Rand. After a few weeks she passes all of Valek's tests, so he assigns her to work with the Commander. He tells the soldiers to leave the new food taster alone. Since she killed Duke Brazell's son, they try to grab her. On her way to clean up, she runs into Duke Brazell's soldiers. After a few days she regains consciousness. So she takes a taste of True Love poison. Valek figures that if she doesn't survive he won't have wasted much time on training her. In order to recognize each poison she must be able to recognize the taste. To start her training, he teaches her the deadliest poison first.

However, if she tries to run away, she will die. If she takes the antidote everyday she will be fine. The first thing he does is dose her with Butterfly Dust.

Valek, the advisor to the Commander, is in charge of her training. Unfortunately the training itself could kill her. With her growing affection for the chief of security, the choice may be more complicated than it seems.Yelena is waiting to be executed for murder, when she is offered the chance to become the food taster for the Commander of Ixia. Now she must decide: will she use her new-found magic to fight for the rebels or to aid her captor. With every bite of the Commander’s meals, Yelena grows more paranoid that this one is her last.

After overhearing rumors of a plot to seize Ixia, she knows war is brewing. Meanwhile, Yelena is discovering a mysterious magic buried deep within her. With each new idea for escape, ensuing events are making it harder. That's not the only risk: the security chief fed her Butterfly’s Dust, a poison for which the antidote must be taken daily or else she will die. Willing to do anything not to be executed, Yelena chooses to become the Ixia commander’s food taster. The chief of security offers her a place to stay in the palace and free meals fit for a king, but there is a catch: Yelena takes the risk of being poisoned at any moment. Then, she is is given another chance at life, if. Locked away in the castle dungeon, Yelena has every right to believe she is about to be executed for murder.

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The poison study