Poison Study

Maria V Snyder's Poison Study has a freshness that most books of fantasy genre do not posses. The story follows Yelena, a young girl condemed for a murder she most certainly did commit, as she attempts to survive her new life on borrowed time. Valek, Ixia's cheif of security, gives her the choice of the hangmans noose or the uncertainty of being the food taster for the amply enemied commander of Ixia.