When Aelya woke up this morning, she thought she was going to pick up the score of blackmarket yura (a magic-inducing drug) her gang needed to escape the streets. Instead she finds her dealer dead, and in the next instant gets arrested as the prime suspect in his death. Now to save herself she has to not only figure out who did it, but convince the lighthair investigator he can trust her enough to do it...

An epic fantasy novella set in the Resonant Saga universe, twelve months before the start of Beggar's Rebellion.

"Urchin's Gambit"

by Levi Jacobs