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Once upon a time, a weary mother would seek Death and Fortune in the forest of Eiswald. Leaving her thirteenth child at their feet, the High Gods would inquire "You seek Death and Fortune in the woods, and expect to just walk away?" They asked, with a dangerous sparkle in their eyes. "Choose. Which one of you will return?" Death smiled cruelly. The woman set her child down and returned to her cottage. The child clung to Fortune with a mysterious vigor and said "V-Vanja. My name is Vanja.

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Once upon a time, in a castle nestled deep in the mountains, lived two young maidens. One slept in a nice warm bed in nice warm dresses and was hailed as the Prinzessin. The other slept on cold basement floors in too-small dresses and hatefully called a russmagdt, or soot-wench. It was said their only use was cleaning soot off of furnaces and wearing it. One day, a clever and beautiful magician took pity on the small second maiden and taught her the art of flattery and cunning. One fateful day, a great lady came to visit, and a serving maid took ill shortly before. They cleaned the russmagdt and gave her a clean, too-big uniform and told her to perform. Once the great lady had left, they told the young maiden to help the young Prinzessin to prepare for bed. As a child of Death and Fortune, the maid could see when their hands were at work. Performing an endearing magic trick the beautiful magician had taught her, the maid would begin a friendship with her master that would last for about three years.

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One fateful night, the princess would be sold and married to the wicked golden wolf, margrave Adalbrecht. The princess hesitated, and the maid would suggest she take her place. The princess eagerly agreed, thinking it would only be for situations she would feel uncomfortable in. However, the maid knew that for it to work, she had to take it all. The maid would take the princess's clothes and enchanted pearls, expressing that the princess did not want this life, as she had been told. She then called the guards as they arrested the screaming princess, leaving her a single white penny.

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The princess has been working as the phantom thief Pfennigheist, or red-penny ghost. She is on a quest to steal 1000 gilden (the highest form of currency) worth of jewelry to flee to the neighboring Free Imperial States, where there is a chance she will be free from her godmothers, Death, and Fortune.

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After working the wrong ring off a single spiteful woman's finger, she is cursed by the forest of Eiswald to become her greed. Vanja is startled, but not too concerned as she has "dealt with a few curses before."

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Thinking nothing of it at first, she takes off the enchanted pearls and goes to sell her jewelry to her fence and one of only two friends she had when she was Vanja, Yannec. After a falling out, he falls on his own knife. Putting a red penny in his mouth for the Ferryman, she leaves, heartbroken.

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Returning to her room, she is greeted by a detective and junior prefect, Emeric Conrad. She is questioned and finds out he already knew she was the Pfennigheist. Commanding the castle kobold (hearth spirit) to drop him into the nearby river Yssar. The Junior prick-fect (prefect) is gone. Vanja commands Ragne, Eiswalds daughter, to save his bag. However, she saves Emeric from drowning.

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She starts working on her curse by donating money to orphanages, but it does nothing. However, she encounters Giselle, the real princess. She offers the princess her life back, only wanting to go back to being a thief. Giselle flatly refuses. By some crazy twist of luck, Vanja’s other friend appears. She seems willing to help Vanja with her curse, but must continue helping at the orphanage.

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Soon after Vanja returns from selling more jewelry to a new fence, a nachtmaren appears in the Gottermarkt and tries to kill her. She is saved by Emeric, shocked to see him alive. He knows Adalbrecht was behind this and that he would try and kill her again, as he had snuck into Adalbrecht’s study looking for evidence for his case. They begrudgingly begin to work together to bring Adalbrecht down.

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Soon, they discover that Adalbrecht has won so many battles because he summons and harnesses demons. Emeric also discovers that he had killed his mentor, Hubert Klemens, for the symbol on his back to allow him to bind himself to hordes of demons in order to become more powerful.

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Adalbrecht absorbs so many demons, he turns into one and tries to kill Giselle again. Knowing she does not have much time left, Vanja gives Emeric a fake coin when he summons the High court, knowing it would take his life. Just as her real body fades away, she is killed and her spirit remains. Everybody prepares themselves to take Adalbrecht down.

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Everybody testifies together to have Adalbrecht punished for attempting to take over the Free Imperial States, presenting the demonic horse-head, (Giselles' pony. She rode it into Minkja when she was still the princess.) letters between Alexander von Hirching and Adalbrecht (they conspired to take over the Free Imperials States and divide it between theirselves), and the tattoo on Adalbrechts back (taken from the dead Hubert Klemens). After confiding with the high god Truth, the god Justice finds Adalbrecht guilty, turning him into a statue of a golden wolf as a warning.

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Everything has ended. Vanja is no longer masquerading as the princess, giving Giselle's life back. She also falls in love with Emeric, knowing she was free. Giselle and Ragne start a relationship, as Giselle is the new Markgravin. She has many new responsibilities, so she has Ragne help her. Joniza and the children from the orphanage now live in the castle, with Joniza paid a large amount of money as the new castle bard.