Thieves of the Drowned Chalice: The Sleeping Face
Five women. One stubborn dwarf. One impossible heist. And the worst thing they steal is a person.
Pell Quillfoot used to catalogue priceless art. Now she counts lamp-oil jars for a living after being blamed for a theft she didn't commit.
Then a simple robbery goes spectacularly wrong.
Within hours, Pell is running with an elven sorcerer who tends to solve small magical problems with entirely too much power, a human con artist who can become whoever the room needs, a disgraced paladin whose god refuses to accept her excommunication, a half-orc embalmer carrying secrets from the city's darkest preservation halls-and Brenn Oreholt, a dwarf who will apparently repair a wagon wheel before helping steal the wagon.
They should separate.
Instead, they decide to rob the Verrine Gallery.
During Orsivar's largest religious festival, the six attempt the impossible: steal five legendary Verenzar paintings from beneath the nose of Marshal-Confessor Odran Marrec, a man powerful enough to preserve his enemies long after they would rather be dead.
The job goes wrong.
Then it goes worse.
They escape with fewer paintings than planned, a stolen levitating transport, half the city hunting them-and a small devotional panel they were never supposed to touch.
Because the woman painted inside it is not a memory.
She is conscious.
She has been trapped for forty-one years.
And she does not want to go home.
Now six people who barely trust one another must decide what kind of thieves they are willing to become, while surviving betrayal, impossible buyers, preserved monsters, dangerous gods, and the growing realization that some things are more valuable when nobody owns them.
The Sleeping Face is a character-driven sword-and-sorcery heist fantasy packed with sharp dialogue, morally complicated women, found family, dangerous magic, slow-burning attraction, spectacularly bad plans, and a crew whose rules are written only after someone gives them a very good reason to need one.
For readers who like their fantasy adventurous, funny, emotionally grounded, and filled with women who are allowed to be brilliant, difficult, dangerous, flawed-and completely unforgettable.
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