She wants to be able to live like a real family. Every time that she starts to get better, she ends up becoming sick again.Tiki wants to be able to afford an apartment. Clara keeps getting sick though, and their rickety home in Charing Cross Station is drafty. She loves them dearly and works herself to the bone to make sure that nothing ever happens to them. She takes care of her adoptive little sisters Fiona and younger Clara, and a few young boys as well. Tiki makes her living on pickpocketing and stealing, but she just wants to keep her ragtag family safe. Her very existence haunts Prince Leopold, the Queen’s son, who is driven to know more about the mysterious mark that encircles her wrist.Prince, pauper, and thief-all must work together to secure the treaty… Rieker has secrets of his own, and Tiki is not all that she appears to be. With the ring missing, a rebel group of faeries hopes to break the treaty with dark magic and blood-Tiki’s blood.Unbeknownst to Tiki, she is being watched-and protected-by Rieker, a fellow thief who suspects she is involved in the disappearance of the ring. For the ring belongs to Queen Victoria, and it binds the rulers of England and the realm of Faerie to peace. One December night, Tiki steals a ring, and sets off a chain of events that could lead to all-out war with the Fey. Their only means of survival is by picking pockets.

Thanks for understanding!ĭebut novelist Kiki Hamilton takes readers from the gritty slums and glittering ballrooms of Victorian London to the beguiling but menacing Otherworld of the Fey in this spellbinding tale of romance, suspense, and danger.The year is 1871, and Tiki has been making a home for herself and her family of orphans in a deserted hideaway adjoining Charing Cross Station in central London. This will be mostly thoughts, with a bit of publishing information.

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The Faerie Ring by Kiki Hamilton