Mercedes Lackey’s triumphant return to the bestselling globe of Valdemar, Take a Thief reveals the untold tale of Skif-a popular personality from Lackey’s first published book, Arrows from the Queen.

Skif was an orphan who would have died from malnutrition and exposure if he had under no circumstances met Deke the pickpocket. By the time he was twelve, Skif was an accomplished cat burglar. But it wasn’t until he decided to grab a finely tacked-out white horse, which was, strangely enough, position unattended in the street, that this young thief found that the furniture could turn on him-and that he himself could be stolen!