The Long View

Five years after walking out of the Accord, the criminal organization nobody walks out of, he’s back in Merranth with a bag of stolen trinkets, a frozen debt, and a scheme to rob the Pendleton vault during the Royal Procession.

He needs a crew. An old partner who hasn’t worked in a decade. A woman who’s smarter than him and won’t let him forget it. And the backing of the most dangerous man in Merranth, who wants something in return that Tav isn’t ready to give.

Five days after the perfect heist, Tav is in a Crown cell, sold out by a friend and missing a ring he keeps reaching for. He’s learned his lesson: the dead can’t betray you. Special Investigations doesn’t want him locked up. They want him working.

So Tav becomes their perfect asset, with the man who sold him as his handler, Sayd and Maddy close by, and Lord Casvern at the top of every road. Somewhere in Thestria is the view from his father’s painting, and Tav means to find it, even if he has to serve two masters to get there.