Then her boss catches her working a fancy holiday party and offers her something more thrilling than pickpocketing the rich while they sip champagne.
He calls it a Secret Santa exchange, but the real gift? The joy of acquiring the world's rarest things. It calls for a few museum heists, a couple of cons, and maybe even a little B&E.
Nothing Vic Harper can't handle.
The Twelve Days of Christmas Job, the second novella in the Vic Harper Caper series. For those who love capers, heists and other impossible missions.
Kate MacLeod has written stories which have appeared in Analog, Strange Horizons and Mythic Delirium, among other places. She is also the author of two young adult science fictions series: The Travels of Scout Shannon, and The Ritchie and Fitz Sci-Fi Murder Mysteries. She also contributes to a serialized science fiction podcast called The Tales of the Chai Makhani Trio. She currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. You can learn more about her work at KateMacLeodWrites.com.