The release date for the English version of 'Little Thieves' by
Margaret Owen is Mar 2023. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
"Gorgeous prose, delicious magic." - John E. Schwab
Kids' Indie Next Pick, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection, and Amazon Best Book
In Margaret Owen's novel Young Adult fiction, a scrappy maid must outwit both palace aristocrats and Low Gods. Margaret Owen is the author of the Merciful Crow trilogy.
A terrible girl once lived in the past...
Vanja Schmidt is aware that no gift—not even a mother's love—is given gratis, and she owes a ton of money. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. At that point, Vanja made the decision to take back her future by taking Gisele's life for herself when her heavenly moms demanded an exorbitant payment for their care.
Vanja replaces the actual Gisele with a magical strand of pearls, leaving the real Gisele a penniless nobody. As a princess and jewel thief, Vanja now lives a solitary but prosperous double life, dazzling aristocrats while draining their bank accounts to finance her grand escape. Then, one heist away from freedom, Vanja crosses the wrong god and is cursed to an untimely end: turning into jewels, stone by stone, for her greed.
Vanja has just two weeks to figure out how to break her curse and make her getaway. And with a feral guardian half-god, Gisele’s sinister fiancé, and an overeager junior detective on Vanja’s tail, she’ll have to pull the biggest grift yet to save her own life.
A deliciously irreverent version of "The Goose Girl" about stolen lives, difficult realities, and the wicked girls at the center of both is crafted by Margaret Owen, author of The Merciful Crow trilogy.