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It's been nearly two years since Vanja brought down the cult she started, and shes still paying the price. As the Pfennigeist, she bucks the law in order to help the desperate and haunt the corrupt all across the empireand no matter what, she works alone.
But an impossible killer is tearing through royalty, and leaving Vanjas signature red penny on every victim. Suddenly the Pfennigeist is no longer a folk hero but a nightmare. When even the Blessed Empress falls, the empires seven royal families must gather to elect her successor within a matter of weeks, or risk the collapse of reality itself
even though it puts every house in the killers sights.
Vanja tells herself shes wading into the royaltys vicious games only to save the name she made, and the loved ones also in jeopardy. But the Order of Prefects has also put their sharpest official on the case, the one who swore hed always find Vanjauntil she broke his heart. Journeyman Prefect Emeric Conrad may no longer be the boy Vanja knew, but theyll have to work together one last time to have any chance of surviving the deadly catastrophe coming for them all.
With bloody conspiracy, sinister magic, and old adversaries closing in, it will take everything Vanja has to save not just the people she loves, but the future shes fought for. In this thrilling final chapter of the Indie Next series Little Thieves, New York Times-bestselling author Margaret Owen shows us the pain and beauty of choosing which demons to face, and which to forgive.