Proper Thieves
by Smith, Luke CJ
Devan's plan is set. His crew is ready. Probably.
Devan is the black sheep of the Collegium—-and not because he’s a bum-legged orphan who can’t conjure his way out of a cat’s entrails. The colossal refuge for wielders of the forbidden arts is too small a place to contain his ambition. With far too few trinkets to steal…
With help from his misfit band of thieves—a loud-mouthed warrior, fidgety mage, neurotic machinist, and hypercompetitive mentalist girlfriend— Devan could be the first to crack the impenetrable Palace.
But the ostentatious floating casino is bursting with gold and danger in equal measure and will prove either their mettle or their end.
Devan will need every ounce of his cunning to navigate a world his cloistered past has ill-prepared him for. Because in the world of the Palace, proper thieves rarely prosper.
Devan is the black sheep of the Collegium—-and not because he’s a bum-legged orphan who can’t conjure his way out of a cat’s entrails. The colossal refuge for wielders of the forbidden arts is too small a place to contain his ambition. With far too few trinkets to steal…
With help from his misfit band of thieves—a loud-mouthed warrior, fidgety mage, neurotic machinist, and hypercompetitive mentalist girlfriend— Devan could be the first to crack the impenetrable Palace.
But the ostentatious floating casino is bursting with gold and danger in equal measure and will prove either their mettle or their end.
Devan will need every ounce of his cunning to navigate a world his cloistered past has ill-prepared him for. Because in the world of the Palace, proper thieves rarely prosper.