Stealing the Iron Crown

Six thieves have died trying to take the Iron Crown. Nika Morozova is the seventh, and she is not a thief — she is the last name the Iron Court was built to erase. To reach the crown she needs Kazimir, the Iron Hand, who has guarded the god-king's treasury for nine years and has never been approached with anything but a blade. She approaches him with a ledger. His mother's life debt. Still unpaid. Still hers. He agrees to a temporary alliance. They build a crew out of people who hate the Iron Court for their own reasons — and one of them, they discover halfway in, is already sold. Because the crown contains a name, and it is not Nika's brother's. It is hers. Some heists get you gold. This one gets you back a life you don't remember agreeing to lose.