After entering a royal art competition to save her fading estate, a girl draws the eye of an exiled royal and unwittingly unravels a web of faerie bargains and family secrets in this Cinderella retelling from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Treachery of Swans.

Wisteria Ashe knows better than to bargain with faeries. But when her family’s estate begins to fall apart—and her stepmother starts trapping the fae that once brought the gardens to life—Wish trades something precious for a chance to set things right.

With three golden coins in hand, she enters the king’s royal art competition, where the prize could change everything: a place at court, enough money to support her family, and maybe even a life of her own choosing. But magic has a memory, and faerie bargains always come with strings.

Wish attracts the attention of a mysterious figure who guarantees her a place in the contest—and who she suspects might be the exiled prince accused of regicide. As more strange omens follow in her wake, Wish begins to wonder if she’s truly shaping her future—or being drawn into someone else’s dangerous game.