Heist Stories

Book two of The Prince, the Thief & the Artifact.

Tony Dawson's death shatters the lives he touched - some devastated, some liberated, all irrevocably changed. As his loved ones, rivals, and victims grapple with his absence, they soon discover Tony's manipulative grip extends even beyond the grave. But as the tangled threads of his past begin to unravel, the question remains: are they finally being set free or is the knot beginning to tighten? *** Chapter Headings by Samantha Puchacz

- Come on, it'll be the biggest heist of our century. - Well, not gonna lie, Jean, you almost had me there. But'll take more than that to make return to my days of thievery. - Dude, we're not just talking about any museum. We're talking about breaking into the LOUVRE. "In a world where beauty is no longer valued and culture is getting lost in the fabrics of time, a gang five thieves will make a run for the streets of Paris and carry out the biggest art heist of our time. That is, if they're not lost to love and betrayals amidst of the chaos of it all."

Vin learned early that trust is a trick and love is a leash. Joining Kelsier's crew should be simple: play a part, steal the future, survive. But Spook-the quiet boy on the rooftops-never asks her to be softer, brighter, or braver. He just stays close enough to make the dark feel less hungry. When the Final Empire begins to crack and something ancient starts whispering in the ash, Vin discovers the most dangerous thing she can do isn't fighting a god... It's letting someone see her and live.

For those born with godblood, life begins with a collar and ends with obedience. When Wisterly escapes her abusive keeper, she can't stay visible for long. Her collar marks her as an Acolyte. If the guards find her, they'll drag her back to her lord-and whatever punishment he's planned. Desperate and hunted, she runs into Mordred, a Guild thief with his own troubles. He offers to help after one last job: stealing the Box of Pathways, a divine Artifact only the godblooded can handle without going mad. With few other choices, Wisterly accepts. But some treasures are better left untouched. When Wisterly takes the Box, something wakes inside and takes control. The heist goes sideways fast, leaving them hunted by the Grand Council and the Guild alike. Now Wisterly and Mordred are fugitives who hold an unpredictable power. To stay free, they must outwit their pursuers-and discover if the Box is their salvation, their undoing, or something stranger altogether. ----- This story contains the opening chapters of my published books. The full books are available on Amazon/KU! Book 2: What the Gods Became is currently serializing M-W-F on Patreon. The opening chapters will be posted here once it's published. Want to stay in touch? Join my newsletter or the Discord! Go to zephyrtrillian.com for links.

Elena Cross has never needed the spotlight. She builds the impossible, times the escape, and disappears before the applause. Magic, to her, isn't about belief; it's about control. If the illusion works, no one should ever know she was there. Ten years after the Horsemen vanished, Elena helps orchestrate their return as a lie. Alongside three other young illusionists, she recreates the legends using deepfakes, holograms, and precision misdirection to expose a corrupt cryptocurrency empire and give the stolen money back to the people it was taken from. The world sees a miracle. Elena sees a system working exactly as designed. Then J. Daniel Atlas finds them, and the Eye comes calling. Recruited for a global heist to steal the Heart Diamond from Veronika Vanderberg, a diamond magnate laundering money for international criminals, Elena is forced out of the margins and into a game where every move has consequences. Old Horsemen resurface. Alliances fracture. Someone is lying about who's really in control. And Charlie turns out to be far more dangerous than Elena ever planned for. As illusions escalate into betrayals and the line between justice and revenge blurs, Elena must decide how much of herself she's willing to reveal. Because in a world built on vanishing acts, the most dangerous thing isn't being seen... It's choosing not to disappear.

When a man without purpose finds himself involved in a game of chess that would change the reality of the human race. Set in a dystopian sci-fi future and based on actual scientific theories.

Twenty years ago, a secret destroyed them. Tonight, it's the only thing keeping them alive. ***** Lily Harper thought she could handle a funeral. She thought she could sign some papers, sell a crumbling house, and vanish back into the city lights. She was wrong. In Maple Ridge, the fog doesn't just hide the mountains... it hides the bodies. When Lily finds a hidden key and a ledger that shouldn't exist, she becomes the most wanted woman in the valley. The only man standing between her and a shallow grave? The boy whose heart she broke when she fled. Lucas Bennett is dangerous, brooding, and convinced the Harpers are the villains of his story. But when the Vanes turn the ridge into a high-tech hunting ground, Lucas and Lily have to do the unthinkable: Trust each other. From heart-pounding car chases through jagged mountain passes to a desperate, subterranean heist beneath the city streets, *Where We Begin Again* is a story of stolen legacies, explosive secrets, and a love that refuses to stay buried. They took her home. They took his family. Now, they're taking it all back.

A sonnet has fourteen lines. My life had fourteen years of lies." ​Si Beatriz "Aeya" Leandro ay ang perpektong reyna ng St. Jude Academy. Maayos ang bawat berso ng kanyang buhay, hanggang sa ang huling taludtod ay mauwi sa pagtataksil. Sa isang gabi, binasag ng kanyang pamilya ang lahat ng pinaghirapan niya. ​Itinapon sa kalsadang puno ng dumi at panganib, natagpuan niya si Eros-ang lalaking hindi marunong sumunod sa ritmo, ang rebelde na tutulong sa kanya na muling isulat ang kanyang tadhana. ​Sa pagitan ng mga nakaw na sandali sa likod ng motor at mga mapanganib na plano sa dilim, susubukan ni Aeya na buuin ang kanyang Broken Sonnet. Ngunit sa mundong puno ng mga anino, ang hustisya ay hindi nakukuha sa panulat-ito ay kinukuha sa pamamagitan ng apoy. ​The music has stopped. Now, the Queen begins to scream.

𝙏𝙞𝙩𝙡𝙚: 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐈𝐧 𝐇𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐲𝐞𝐬 - He saw honesty in her smile... never realising it was gold she was after. ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘ ✨ 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐊𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐫 24. Cold-blooded mastermind with the face of an angel. Born into a middle-class world but thrust into a rich-kid playground through a scholarship, Vanya learned young that money doesn't just talk-it laughs at the poor. She had comebacks sharp as knives, a smile that could kill, and two childhood friends who watched the world's glittering cruelty alongside her. By class 10, the trio made a silent vow: "If gold is what they worship... then gold is what we'll steal." From a corrupt billionaire's wedding-one month, one heist, one perfect plan. But fate had its own plot twist. ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘ ⚔️ 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐎𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐢 26. Decorated DSP. Ruthless. Unshakable. Unattainable. A man whose voice can silence chaos. Ten criminal gangs down. No third walk free. He doesn't chase criminals-he traps them. But when he meets Vanya... The hunter doesn't know he's already prey. ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘ But what happens when... A criminal starts falling for the cop chasing her? And the officer starts falling for the lie she lives? " 𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘢, 𝘬𝘪𝘵𝘯𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘪, 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘫𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘶𝘯, 𝘻𝘢𝘳𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘯, 𝘬𝘺𝘢 𝘬𝘦𝘩𝘵𝘪 𝘩𝘢𝘪 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘭 𝘬𝘪 𝘥𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘬𝘢𝘯..." 🎵 "𝘋𝘪𝘭 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘩𝘢𝘭 𝘫𝘢 zar𝘢... 𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘩𝘢𝘣𝘣𝘢𝘵 𝘬𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘪 𝘵𝘶..." 🎶 ⚠️ Betrayal tastes sweet when sugarcoated with love. ⚠️ He's sworn to to follow rules and she is living for breaking them.

A kid wakes up in a puddle with a brown paper bag on his head... and a video game HUD in his eyes. Welcome to Fanhattan - a filthy, brutal city where sports betting is religion, gangsters run deli back rooms, and probability is power. Billy Brownbag doesn't know who attacked him. He doesn't know why he's seeing floating stats and quest prompts... And he definitely doesn't know why his "family heirloom" bag is apparently a Legendary Item. But when Billy's new ability helps him call a game with freaky accuracy, he gets pulled into a crew of underground Sharks: 🥪 Uncle Sal - the deli boss with citywide connections 🔪 Tony & Vito - twin enforcers with cleavers (yes, really) 🎲 Lady Luck - a gambler who can bend probability 📉 The Fade God - an analytics genius so wrong he's valuable Now Billy must decode his father's hidden card deck, survive the Syndicate's snake-faced nightmare, and uncover the truth behind his family's disappearance... ...before Fanhattan swallows him whole. In this city, the only way to win is to out-hustle fate itself.

In the neon-drenched underworld of New York, Starr is a digital predator who uses her body and her brilliance to scam the elite-until a deadly secret about her mother's disappearance turns her into the hunted. Trapped between a gritty addiction to the rush and a blood-soaked path to revenge, she must decide if she's willing to burn the whole city down to claim her throne. Behind the velvet curtains of Sheena's Palace, the sex is a weapon, the loyalty is a lie, and the house always wins. ⚠️ WARNING: Intended for mature audiences only. Contains explicit smut, graphic violence, and raw urban grit. This is for 18yrs+ if you're under the age, I'm sorry this story is not for you.

A life of crime is all 14 year old Vixx has ever known. After the death of her mother when she was only 5, she ran away from her run-down miserable home at somehow crossed paths with Mr. Wolf, and to his surprise, she showed no fear towards him. He imprinted on her and took her in and raised her along with Mr. Snake, Ms. Tarantula, Mr. Shark, and Mr. Piranha and just like that, Vixx was quickly brought right out of her sadness. Sure a life as a criminal was no life for a child like herself, but it was the only life she had with the only people she had come to love as a family. 9 years later, Vixx is now the self-proclaimed "wild child" of this little family of bad guys. Until one heist takes an unexpected turn and Vixx and the Bad Guys are taken under the wing of Professor Marmalade as he teaches them what it takes to be good and accepted by others. That's when Mr. Wolf start to question the very reputation they have lived up to all their lives and Vixx starts to rethink on everything her family taught her. Maybe they can take a chance on being good. Bad Guys belongs to Dreamworks. I only own Vixx.

Join Shadow, Jace, Christy and Jason on their big heists. The more time these friends and couples spend together the closer they get. Will the pressure of this job tear our friends apart, or will it strengthen their bond. Is Shadow's full proof plan, full enough. All will be revealed in this exciting sequel. Vote and comment, all is appreciated!!!

The Truth about Vampires, Werewolves and Dwarfs but this story is not for the faint of heart.

... Bosco Leroy x Lindsey Ricci - "I always find my way back" "I'm counting on it" - In which the confusion of love follows Lindsey in times of trouble. Is it all but an illusion, or is it fate? Will they show that they are much more than just teens and prove their potential in stealing the Vanderburg Heart Diamond...? Will this heist bind the two or seperate them?

When a small goil meets a stubborn boy on the streets of Manhattan , they both realize that she is his erster and he is her king of New York...

My world is four walls and a firewall. The name's Elias Vance. I hunt monsters, the kind in three-piece suits who break lives with keystrokes. I do it all from the one place I'm safe: my apartment. I don't do partners. I don't do outside. Not since my family was taken from me. Then he blew my door off its hinges. He calls himself Leo. A thief, all sharp grins and sharper reflexes, bleeding out on my pristine floor. He shoved a data-key into my hand, babbling about a shadowy syndicate called Janus and a hit on his life. He said he was sorry. He said they were coming for me, too. I didn't believe him. Until the professional cleaners showed up and turned my safe house into a warzone. Now, we're stuck with each other. The agoraphobic numbers-whisperer and the adrenaline-junkie thief. He thinks I'm a coward. I think he's a liability. But as we tear into Janus, we find something worse than stolen art or laundered cash. We find a project named "Chimera." And a chilling truth: the tragedy that broke me and the murder that forged him weren't accidents. They were acquisitions. They thought they were hunting us. They were wrong. We're the ghosts they created, and we're coming for our revenge. Even if trusting each other is the most dangerous heist of all. Two broken men. One shared enemy. No way out.

"I'll do any anything as long as you won't tell." "Anything?" He asked, amusement dripping off of his tongue. "Yes." "Then, make out with me." / / / / / / / A party with an unexpected twist. One wristwatch. One closed door. One night that still lingers on their lips. completed. ©agustdesires 2018-2021

The tale of Jason and the Argonauts and the quest for the Golden Fleece, as a modern day heist novel. Set in the Olympus Drive Universe with characters from previous novels that make up the Argonauts. Content/Trigger Warning: Some minor peril and violence throughout. Some profanity. Some sexuality and brief nudity (Chapter 35). There are several intense scenes involving spiders and a few involving snakes. Themes of family relationships, teen sexuality and sexual relationships, and psychological abuse are discussed. Depression and suicidal ideation are discussed(Chapter 9). Some brief crude humor.