Eight Lamps Between Us

Zafira lets clients live inside a wish before choosing its cost. Rami is the djinn auditor sent to close her chaotic bazaar stall. A fake engagement buys them three days to investigate a missing deed, but eight consent-bound lamps turn their wax shadows into a map of the stolen-wish vault—and evidence Zafira once sold her customers’ secrets. To save the market, they must publish both the conspiracy and their own guilt, then give the bazaar to the people who keep it alive.

A wish witch fake-engages the djinn auditing her bazaar, but their consent-bound wax shadows reveal the stolen vault—and the betrayal she buried.