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Iron and Honey

Name: Iron and Honey
Author: Thravok

Thravok 6 stories

Inkitt Dark Fantasy Courtintrigue Symbols Secrets +1 More

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Story Notes

✦ A NOTE ON THE SERIES ✦
The Taste of Lies is a three-book series. Each book follows Ysabel's journey, but ends with a complete arc.
📖 Book 1: Iron and Honey — available now.📖 Book 2: Ash and Salt — coming soon.📖 Book 3: Blood and Truth — coming soon.
You can read Iron and Honey on its own. But if you want more, the rest will be waiting.

Summary

She can taste every lie. But the truth might kill her. Ysabel is the king's taster — a servant with a rare gift. She can taste lies in food, in wine, in the air itself. Every day, she risks her life to protect a king she doesn't trust. Then a cupbearer drinks poisoned wine and starts telling the truth. Not a lie. Not a confession. The truth — unstoppable, pouring out of him like blood from a wound. Someone is poisoning the court with honesty. And they are just getting started. 🔥 A conspiracy that reaches the highest towers of the castle. 🗝️ A symbol on a salt jar that matches the tattoo on her dead mother's wrist. ⚔️ A guard named Cael — a man who tastes like nothing, who hides more than he shows. 💔 A truth that can destroy everything she has built. Ysabel has spent her whole life learning not to trust anyone. But to survive this, she will have to trust someone. Even if that someone might not be real.

Genre: Thriller,Romance

Author: Thravok

Status: 1d ago

Chapters: 6

Rating: n/a

Age Rating: 18+

Welcome

✦ WELCOME TO THE TASTE OF LIES ✦

This is not a story about heroes. It's not about saving the world.

It's about a woman who tastes lies in her food, in her wine, in the air she breathes — and the one man who tastes like nothing at all.

🗝️ A court that smiles while sharpening knives.

👑 A king who watches too closely.

🍯 A secret that tastes like honey gone wrong.

🩸 A truth that might be worse than any lie.

If you like slow-burn tension, morally grey characters, and mysteries that cut to the bone — welcome. You're in the right place.

Chapters

1. Welcome

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