How do you know your love is genuine, when your lover is a creature known for deception and capable of cheating love with their natural venom?

Doctor Rattlesnake mends heart for a living. With unpeered precision, she can cut open a pony's heart, repair it, and sew it back up. Yet, just like anypony else, her own heart remains a mystery to her. Her love for Malachite has always been unquestionable, but when a scandal of changeling love venom breaks out in her hometown, will that certainty become shaken?

As the events around her plays out, a more important question arises:

Does she still have a say in her lover's credibility, or will the loving crowd of ponies drown her voice out?

Chapter are numbered in chronical order.