num_pages: 427
description: 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...
language: English
title: Poison Study
titlecomplete: Poison Study (Study, #1)
characters: Valek, Commander Ambrose, Janco, Ari, General Brazell, Yelena Zaltana, Randall Scott, Maren
genres: Adventure, High Fantasy, Young Adult, Fantasy Romance, Magic, Fantasy, Romance, Fiction, Paranormal, Young Adult Fantasy
ratings_count: 162801
places: Ixia
series: The Chronicles of Ixia, Poison Study
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: RITA Award by Romance Writers of America
category: First Book, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Compton Crook Award
publisher: Mira