Starbound
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Last published Sat, Dec 30, 2023
In a world at war over magic, an imprisoned thief is invited to plan a heist to steal the World Heart again.
Ever Thymeon dreams of her freedom, a thing of the past after her heist to steal a world treasure was betrayed from under her.
When she's given the opportunity to trade one life of imprisonment for another, she takes it without hesitation. She'll need to join the not quite prince of a faraway kingdom and the Captain of his Guard to participate in a heist even she has no experience in. She doesn't care about the kingdoms or the rebellion the prince promises to bring, not anymore.
She simply wants her freedom again.
To win it, she must enter her old world of thieves and gangs, magic and murder. She'll need to befriend an empress she despises, survive an impossible heist twice over, and gather a crew she's not sure if she can trust anymore.
But when shadows rot the land once again, and a promised evil begins to awaken, she must fight not just for her freedom but to desperately keep her world from being destroyed.
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