
Written by Scott Chantler
Book #1 in the Three Thieves series
Three circus performers agree to rob a royal treasury, and a lost brother's trail begins.
Fourteen-year-old orphan Dessa Redd is an acrobat in a traveling circus, still haunted by the day a mysterious man snatched her twin brother away. When the troupe reaches the royal city of Kingsbridge, she hopes to find him at last. Instead, Topper the juggler recruits Dessa and Fisk the strongman to rob the royal treasury, a job that sends the three thieves on the run and on the trail of her long-lost brother.
Scott Chantler’s fast-paced story will engage readers while his bold-lined art with richly detailed backgrounds is a tribute to classic comic books. As an acrobat in a traveling circus, 14-year-old orphan Dessa Redd flies through the air with ease. Still, she is weighed down by troubling memories. But when her ragtag circus troupe pulls into the city of Kingsbridge, Dessa feels a tickle of hope. Maybe here in the royal city she will finally find her twin brother — or the mysterious man who snatched him away when they were just children. Meanwhile, Topper, the circus juggler, recruits Dessa and the circus strongman, Fisk, for the job of robbing the royal treasury. Hungry and desperate, both agree, setting off a series of adventures that will take the three thieves from one end of the world to the other in search of Dessa’s long-lost brother.
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