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📚 Book 1 of a completed 3-book series
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A condemned woman trades her noose for an impossible choice: become the Commander's food taster and risk death by assassination, or refuse and face execution anyway. Yelena accepts, only to discover she's been poisoned as insurance—forced to return daily for the antidote that keeps her alive. What unfolds is a tense dance of danger, forbidden attraction, and the emergence of magical powers that threaten to upend everything she thought she knew about her world. With rebels stirring, her own abilities spiraling out of control, and trust becoming her most dangerous gamble, Yelena must navigate a treacherous path where one wrong move could cost her everything.
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