After breaking a "curse" on the imperial heirs a palace servant with training in herbal
medicine is promoted up the ranks to food taster...and right into the thick of palace intrigue
in this lushly illustrated historical mystery series! When two beautiful foreign envoys with
designs on the Emperor come calling with a tale of old about a spellbinding courtesan who
captured the imagination of their family patriarch it’s up to Maomao to concoct a theatrical
scheme to give the ladies a whopper of a story to take home! Later Maomao goes back to
sniffing around the Inner Court to find out the truth about the troubling prevalence of those
foreign perfume oils that could spell disaster for the throne's future heirs...
