Sibel Kaya

About

Poison gardens and precision science collide in Sibel Kaya's meticulously organized world, where every toxic bloom represents a calculated experiment in control. Her rivals learn quickly that underestimating her is a fatal mistake—behind her clinical demeanor lurks a mind as razor-sharp and unpredictable as the rare botanical specimens she cultivates.

Backstory

Three drops of her grandmother's tears had supposedly blessed the first poison garden, though Sibel Kaya suspected the old woman's "blessing" was actually a carefully orchestrated curse meant to bind their bloodline to botanical vengeance. She inherited more than rare seeds when her grandmother died—she inherited a centuries-old contract with the Vesperia family, one that demanded a Kaya woman tend their secret gardens in exchange for protection from the Inquisition's plant-hunters. Dr. Elara Vesperia had been different from her predecessors, treating Sibel as an equal rather than a servant, until the night Sibel discovered her mentor's true research: breeding plants that could rewrite human memory itself. The mislabeled nightshade that killed Elara's suitor hadn't been an accident—it had been Sibel's desperate attempt to stop a wedding that would have given the Vesperia family access to the royal court, and now she tends both gardens with the weight of murder and the intoxicating poss

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