Little Thieves

A 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 timethere was a horrible girl… Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely givennot even a motherΓÇÖs loveΓÇöand sheΓÇÖs on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanjathe adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortunewas Princess Gisele’s dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when VanjaΓÇÖs otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their careand Vanja decided to steal her future back… by stealing GiseleΓÇÖs life for herself. The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while Vanja uses an enchanted string of pearls to take her place. NowVanja leads a lonely but lucrative double life as princess and jewel thiefcharming nobility while emptying their coffers to fund her great escape. Thenone heist away from freedomVanja crosses the wrong god and is cursed to an untimely end: turning into jewelsstone by stonefor 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-godGiseleΓÇÖs sinister fianc├⌐and an overeager junior detective on VanjaΓÇÖs tailsheΓÇÖll have to pull the biggest grift yet to save her own life. In \