Spin Me Gold

Manhattan, June 1926: to get herself noticed, chorus girl Fenella Quist plants a lie in the papers — 'the Follies girl who spins straw into gold' — and bootlegger king Lucius Ormsby, who owns her theatre and her father's debts, locks her in a loft full of straw: gold by dawn, three nights running, or her father goes in the Hudson. The gorgeous fae spinner Gilt climbs out of her dressing-room mirror and spins it for her — for a price each night — and when she has nothing left, he takes a wager: guess his true name by Midsummer Eve, or belong to the fae court under Times Square for a hundred years.