Nura spends her days in the mica mines, scraping together just enough to support her family—and sometimes treat herself to a sweet gulab jamun. She dreams of finding the Demon’s Tongue, a hidden treasure said to lie deep underground, and finally leaving hardship behind.
But when a terrible accident traps her best friend below the surface, Nura’s search leads her into the mysterious realm of the jinn. Beneath a purple sky and across a pink sea, she reaches a dazzling palace filled with promises of wealth and wonder.
Yet even in this magical world, Nura soon learns that not everything is as it seems—and trickster jinns don’t play fair.