Returning to Amsterdam eighteen years after the events of The Miniaturist, The House of Fortune begins on Thea Brandt's eighteenth birthday, also the day on which her mother Marin died. Her aunt Nella is desperate to find Thea a husband who will guarantee her future, but when she attends an exclusive ball that could secure their fates, she feels a strange prickling sensation on the back of her neck and wonders if the miniaturist has returned . . .