The legendary Hotel Magnifique is like no other: a magical world of golden ceilings, enchanting soirées and fountains flowing with champagne. It changes location every night, stopping in the same place only once a decade. when the Magnifique comes to her hometown, seventeen-year-old Jani hatches a plan to secure jobs there for herself and her younger sister, longing to escape their dreary existence.

Luck is on their side, and with a stroke of luminous ink on paper the sisters are swept into a world of opulence and adventure. But Jani soon begins to notice sinister cracks in the hotel's decadent façade. Who is the shadowy maître who presides over the Magnifique? And can the girls discover the secret behind the hotel's magic, and the real cost of this glittering life?