And, just how close is Tiki herself to the faery world? Hamilton debuts with a fantasy that has a heavy-and interesting-historical focus on the poor street children of Victorian London and contrasts their lives with the splendor of the wealthy. Tiki tries to ransom the ring and fend off two menacing faeries, but when one kidnaps her little charge Clara, she faces a life-or-death situation. Helping her (or is he?), the handsome Rieker also roams the streets of London as a thief, and he claims to know much about the faeries. However, she learns that the ring is enchanted, and that dangerous faeries want it. When she stumbles into Buckingham Palace, she finds a ring and takes it. Tiki supports her adopted “family” of orphans by using her uncanny ability to steal. In 1871 London, a ragged girl pickpocket steals a ring that enforces a truce between the British Crown and the Faery world, setting off a struggle between the realms.
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