Zaria Mendoza is a talented alchemologist, like her late father, able to create any magically powered weapon her dark market clients ask of her. But the work is piling up, materials aren’t cheap, and life in Devil’s Acre is getting more dangerous by the day. And though Zaria doesn’t like to talk about it—even with her childhood friend, Jules—creating magic is slowly draining her life away.
Ward, the kingpin of the dark market, has an impossible task for Kane Durante: steal a certain necklace. It doesn’t matter that the necklace is part of the Great Exhibition in London’s Crystal Palace, where thousands of people, including the queen, will be in attendance. If successful, Kane’s best friend, Fletcher, will be freed from the kingpin’s command. Fail, and Ward will kill Fletcher himself.
Zaria’s fate becomes linked with Kane’s when she agrees to help him with his heist—as long as extra jewels from the Crystal Palace are part of the deal. This is Zaria and Jules’s only chance out of the hellhole they call home. There are just two problems: Zaria needs that necklace just as much as Kane does, and Kane has no intention of stealing extra jewels.
With time running out and the two of them determined to double-cross each other, who will come out on top?
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