Thieves of The Drowned Chalice: Price Lot Forty: 2

ix thieves. Ninety thousand crowns. Eleven months. And one painting that may be worth far more than money.Pell Quillfoot and her crew escaped Orsivar with something no thief should ever have stolen: the preserved mind of Merisa Marrec, trapped inside a painted saint for more than forty years.Now Merisa is fading.Their only hope may be the legendary sixth panel of Verenzar's lost masterpiece-a work that could complete a magical doorway and give Merisa the one thing no prison, relic, church, or warlord has ever offered her: a choice.Then an auction notice appears.LOT FORTY. PANEL, OAK. SUBJECT UNRECORDED. ATTRIBUTED TO VERENZAR OF ORSIVAR. PROVENANCE SEALED. RESERVE: 90,000 CROWNS.The problem?The crew has nineteen.So begins an eleven-month campaign of impossible jobs.A memory locked inside a bank suspended over black water. A legendary dwarven artifact buried in an abandoned forge that refuses to stay dead. A long con that becomes dangerously close to a real life. A stolen document worth a fortune because it controls hundreds of people. Old families. Old gods. Old debts. And enemies who have finally learned how Pell thinks.Every score brings them closer to Lot Forty.Every success costs something.And waiting in Valcerin is an auction controlled by the Seven Houses, watched by people with deeper pockets, longer memories, and very good reasons to make sure the six thieves never learn what they are really bidding on.They're not heroes. They're not saviors. They're thieves.But this time, stealing the prize may be the easy part.Because some treasures have a price. Others decide what you're willing to become to pay it.The Price of Lot Forty is Book Two of Thieves of the Drowned Chalice, a character-driven fantasy heist series packed with impossible jobs, sharp dialogue, dangerous magic, found family, moral complications, and plans that rarely survive first contact with reality.