The Queen's Food Taster
A Snow White Retelling

About this book:

In the kitchens of Castle Caelum, every meal is a murder attempt—and Ilse is the only thing standing between the Queen and her next victim. As the royal food taster, she's survived three years of belladonna, hemlock, and arsenic by building immunity one poisoned spoonful at a time. But when Queen Regina sends a plum laced with death to her own stepdaughter, Ilse makes a fatal mistake: she saves the Princess's life. Now the most dangerous woman in the realm knows exactly how much poison Ilse can swallow before she breaks—and the Princess knows Ilse's secret.

Snow White isn't the helpless girl in the tower. She's a prisoner who watches, waits, and slips iron filings to the kitchen servant who swallowed nightshade for her. Between them grows a fragile trust forged in violet-scented corridors and whispered warnings about red quinces watered with blood. But Regina plays a longer game than either of them suspects, and her mirror in the high solar whispers names in the dark. With a feast approaching that will draw every scheming lord in the kingdom, Ilse must navigate a menu of treason where the main course is revolution—and the price of survival might be her own soul.

*The Queen's Food Taster* serves up a Snow White retelling steeped in poison lore, palace intrigue, and the terrible arithmetic of resistance. For readers who crave atmospheric fantasy where every sensory detail cuts like a knife and loyalty is the deadliest poison of all.