Fairest Poison

The Other Crown #2

He noticed her before he knew her name.
He knew her name before he ever spoke to her.

Florian Alcott has been sitting on the same bench since first year while his sketchbook is open. In the Fine Arts courtyard in front of him, the world arranged at a comfortable, observable distance. He is not hiding. He simply has not been asked to step forward.

Then a woman he unconsciously observes and has never spoken to collapses on campus, a locked door goes up around her, and seven strangers arrive at his life with a single question: What did you see?

It turns out he saw everything.
It turns out that is only the beginning.

Fairest Poison is a Snow White story told from the painter's journal. Everything happened in one campus: an investigation, and the long, overdue reckoning of a young man who has spent three years watching the world and calling it enough.

He has been looking since August. He is only now beginning to see.