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Der Wettkampf ist brandgefährlich – auch für ihr Herz. Rosalyn Quest ist die Tochter einer legendären Diebesfamilie. Ihr ganzes Leben wurde sie darauf trainiert, weltweit die größten Coups durchzuziehen. Doch gerade als sie ihren Ausstieg aus dem Familienbusiness plant, wird ihre Mutter gefangen genommen. Rosalyns einzige Chance, ihre Mutter zu retten: die Einladung zum Thieves‘ Gambit, einem Wettbewerb für Nachwuchsdiebe, die sie eigentlich abgelehnt hatte. Wer den Wettbewerb gewinnt, erhält einen Wunsch, der sich durch Macht, Geld oder Einfluss erfüllen lässt.

In this Edgar Award-nominated mystery, John Maddox Roberts takes listeners back to a Rome filled with violence and evil. Vicious gangs ruled the streets of Crassus and Pompey, routinely preying on plebeian and patrician alike. So the garroting of a lowly ex-slave and the disembowelment of a foreign merchant in the dangerous Subura district seemed of little consequence to the Roman hierarchy.

A product of the latest technologies, Barliona is a virtual world brimming with fun and entertainment. The government has become the guarantor for the in-game currency, allowing its free circulation. As a result the population floods Barliona in pursuit of easy money. It doesn't take long for the game developers to discover a source of free labor: real-world prison convicts. While their bodies are locked in special auto-maintenance virtual capsules, the prisoners' minds are released into Barliona's virtual mines.

I can never make up for the things I did while deep in the gang life. It doesn’t matter how much I've changed. Rory will never see past it. Things burn hot between us, but he's far too good for a bad guy like me. I don't date, and Rory is the kind of guy that deserves more than one night. But for him, I might be ready to change my rules. If he can ever accept my past.

The Hunter's Gambit is the first novel in the Archanium Codex, an epic fantasy series in which two protagonists, Aleksei Drago and Jonas Belgi, struggle to keep their home nation of Ilyar from being plunged into a bloody civil war even as a 1,000-year-old evil called the Demonic Presence threatens to break free of its prison and consume the entire world.