Survival Menu: Palace Poison

A black jade ring tips poison into the soup inches from Jin Su’s hand—the same kind of poison that sent her mother to the execution block. She keeps her face blank and her mouth shut, but one taste reveals the killer’s final memory. Five years after being driven from the palace, Jin returns as a nameless, “mute” kitchen maid, armed with a knife, a fake identity, and her mother’s forbidden gift: every dish can expose the cook’s secrets. But the third prince, Yan Xiao, is investigating the same murder—and the closer he gets to her, the more he seems to recognize the girl she buried beneath the disguise. To clear her mother’s name, Jin must serve one deadly dish after another while surviving a palace where a single spoken word could put her back on the execution list. At dawn, the poisoned soup is placed before the Dowager Empress—and Jin must either break her silence to stop it, or let another innocent woman die.