For the last year, the wicked maid Vanja Schmidt has lived a lie. Once the loyal servant of the Princess Gisele, Vanja stole a string of enchanted pearls that transformed her into the glamorous princess, leaving the true Gisele a penniless nobody. Now Vanja leads a lonely but profitable double life, charming the nobility with the pearls’ facade while ransacking their coffers as a wanted jewel thief. All she needs is enough to fund an escape from the god-mothers, Death and Fortune, who took her in as a child—and have come to collect her debt. Then, one heist away from freedom, Vanja crosses the wrong god. Abruptly cursed to turn into jewels herself, she’s left with just two weeks to make up for everything she’s taken before the curse claims her life. And with a feral guardian half-god, Gisele’s sinister fiancée, and an overeager junior detective suddenly complicating the picture, saving herself will take Vanja’s biggest grift yet.
