There’s a reason people should be careful what they wish for.
Branka’s life is hopeless.
She’s an orphaned scullery maid working at the manor house of Lord and Lady Fitzgerald, in love with a boy who can never love her back.
More than anything, she wishes for freedom.
And in Branka’s world, GOLD is freedom.
At least, that’s what she thinks. Often, what a person thinks and what is true are very different things.