Exposure (Paul Faustino #3)

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Maria V. Snyder's Study novels are unforgettable, emotional, powerful and compelling. Don't miss how it all began...
Choose: a quick death...or slow poison...
About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll live to eat the best meals in the palace--and risk death from those trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.
But after Yelena becomes a food taster, the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, feeds her Butterfly's Dust--and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death.
Her options shrink as disasters mount. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops powers she can't control. And her next choice might be fatal....

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