Nura longs for the simple pleasure of many thingsâto wear a beautiful red dupatta or to bite into a sweet gulab. But with her mom hard at work in a run-down sweatshop and three younger siblings to feed, Nura must spend her days earning money by mica mining. But itâs not just the extra rupees in her pocket Nura is after. Local rumor says thereâs buried treasure in the mine, and Nura knows that finding it could change the course of her familyâs life forever.
Her plan backfires when the mines collapse and four kids, including her best friend, Faisal, are claimed dead. Nura refuses to believe it and shovels her way through the dirt hoping to find him. Instead, she finds herself at the entrance to a strange world of purple skies and pink seasâa portal to the opulent realm of jinn, inhabited by the trickster creatures from her motherâs cautionary tales. Yet they arenât nearly as treacherous as her mother made them out to be, because Nura is invited to a luxury jinn hotel, where sheâs given everything she could ever imagine and more.Â
But thereâs a dark truth lurking beneath all that glitter and gold, and when Nura crosses the ownerâs son and is banished to the working quarters, she realizes she isnât the only human whoâs ended up in the hotelâs clutches. Faisal and the other missing children are there, too, and if Nura canât find a way to help them all escape, theyâll be bound to work for the hotel forever.