[CLOSED] Summer of the Heist: One Lucky Winner Can Nab These Action-Packed Capers!

Returning to the iconic thief, O’Conner, once known as the “Warlord of Willow Ridge,” has settled down into semi-retirement. No one in his middle-class neighborhood knows of his double life, besides his longtime girlfriend.

But when approached with the plans for what would be his biggest heist yet, O’Conner can’t refuse. Raiding a tech billionaire’s underground bunker, the payout promises to be millions. 

As always, things don’t go to plan, and the past refuses to be buried for O’Conner—“buckle up for loads of action and a wild ride through SoCal history and haunts” (Los Angeles Times).

Blackjack pro Ronnie “the Technician” Redfield was once the most formidable card counter in Vegas—but when a casino owner took him down, his life has been unraveling ever since. Now, his wife is dead, and his daughter, Margot, is missing.

Three years later, he’s living in a trailer when his army buddy from Vietnam days, “Wild” Bill Grimsley, shows up at his door with a proposition. Bill wants to expose the worst casino owner on the Strip—and he’ll need Ronnie’s help. 

Ronnie agrees, if only to make enough money to hire a detective to track Margot. Assembling a ragtag team, he sets off on what will be his dangerous and, if accomplished, impressive heist yet. 

Set in London, 1879, twenty-year-old Kit Jimeson has made a career for herself as the highest-earning thief in the iconic all-women ring. But she dreams of a life where she’s not constantly looking over her shoulder. 

Kit has been saving up her money, in the hopes of helping her younger sister have a shot on the marriage mart. But, on the verge of bringing her plans to fruition, Kit is met with the notorious thief, Maggie O’Connell. 

Beautiful and charming, she’s recently returned from the Australian penal colony—and calls on Kit’s talents for revenge against those who put her away. If she wants to start her new life, Kit will have to do everything Maggie asks for, in a heist that showcases “historical crime fiction at its most authentic” (Kirkus Reviews).

In this brilliant crime debut—a daring heist thriller and homage to ’50s pulp noir—two men fall in love and vow to escape to the Big City together . . . no matter the cost.

OUR ADVANTAGES AWAIT! So says the sign leading to the heart of Riverton, USA. But to the mild-mannered, terminally bored Richard Cobson, small-town life offers nothing but the desperate desire to escape it. Richard’s humdrum existence is made marginally better when he realizes he can get away with skimming money from the Eddy & Dowd Safe Deposit Company, where he works. Then the handsome, smooth-talking Marlon Montgomery comes to town, and the two fall madly in love. One is a lonely number for a getaway heist; two betters the odds. Together, they concoct a plan to rob Eddy & Dowd’s vault and escape to the Big City.

But Richard and Marlon’s foolhardy scheme is complicated threefold: by Gloria, a cunning and defiant coworker who wants in on the plan; by Frank Todd, a disgraced cop desperate to restore his reputation; and by Mr. Dowd, the paranoid owner of Eddy & Dowd. As these characters’ lives collide in explosive and ultimately fatal ways, the prospect of freedom for Richard and Marlon becomes a matter of what they’re willing to pay for it.