Name: Little Thieves
Price: 12.49 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Owen, Margaret
ISBN: 9781250853530

Type

Physical Book

Author

Margaret Owen

Publisher

Square Fish

Language

English

Pages

528

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781250853530

Synopsis "Little Thieves "

"Gorgeous prose, delicious magic." - V.E. SchwabYALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults SelectionKids' Indie Next PickAmazon Best BookA scrappy maid must outsmart both palace nobles and Low Gods in a new YA fantasy by Margaret Owen, author of the Merciful Crow series. Once upon a time, there was a horrible girl... Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother's love--and she's on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja's otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back... by stealing Gisele's life for herself. The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while Vanja uses an enchanted string of pearls to take her place. Now, Vanja leads a lonely but lucrative double life as princess and jewel thief, charming nobility while emptying their coffers to fund her great escape. Then, one heist away from freedom, Vanja crosses the wrong god and is cursed to an untimely end: turning into jewels, stone by stone, for her greed. Vanja has just two weeks to figure out how to break her curse and make her getaway. And with a feral guardian half-god, Gisele's sinister fiancé, and an overeager junior detective on Vanja's tail, she'll have to pull the biggest grift yet to save her own life. Margaret Owen, author of The Merciful Crow series, crafts a delightfully irreverent retelling of "The Goose Girl" about stolen lives, thorny truths, and the wicked girls at the heart of both.

Margaret Owen

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Margaret Owen was born and raised at the end of the Oregon Trail and now lives and writes in Seattle, held hostage by her two monstrous cats. In her free time, she enjoys traveling to ill-advised destinations and raising funds, through her illustrations, for non-profit organizations seeking social justice. The Merciful Crow is her debut novel. She lives in Seattle, Washington, USA. You can find her on Twitter and on her website.

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