When vain nineteen-year-old Lady Vivienne Silvermere accepts a magical bargain for eternal youth, she doesn't expect the catch: her mirror will now display every moral failing as a physical blemish on her reflection. Armed with a sardonic talking mirror and a talent for turning disasters into opportunities, Vivienne must navigate a month-long virtue wager with meddling fairy godmothers, solve a youth-stealing countess's deadly secret, and somehow win the heart of a philosopher who sees metaphors in everything including her increasingly chaotic attempts at romance. From the Great Swan Incident of the Midsummer Ball to unionizing an orphanage full of revolutionary pixies, from reforming pirates into a legitimate business to teaching her own painted doppelgänger how to be imperfect, Vivienne discovers that true beauty lies not in flawless preservation but in the courage to grow, fail spectacularly, and transform every disaster into something magical. A hilarious re-imagining of The Picture of Dorian Gray set in an enchanted Queendom where mirrors tell uncomfortable truths, love potions affect entire neighborhoods, and one disaster-prone lady learns that sometimes the most beautiful thing you can be is genuinely, chaotically, perfectly imperfect.Featuring: Sarcastic magical mirrors, philosophical shadow puppets, tiny labor activists, reformed pirates, competitive virtue trials, and the most beautifully disastrous wedding in fairy tale history.