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Selene is the youngest daughter in a gifted line of healers born to serve as the kings royal physician Yet when Selenes mother Persaphe embroils her in a plot to kill the king Selene finds herself poisoning the very man she is sworn to protect

Things seem bleak but there is another problemthe poison doesnt work and the king doesnt die Rather he awakes from his coma paralyzed aware of the attempt on his life and furious

With the palace in a state of upheaval and everyone hunting the kings poisoner Persaphe flees leaving Selene the task of rehabilitating the man she aimed to kill all while hiding her true role in his demise What follows is a journey spanning years and continents as a king and his servant develop into unlikely friends and more Yet the closer Selene grows to the king the more her secret weighs on her as does her growing fear that Persaphehaving failed to kill him oncemight return to try again