At the frozen edge of the solar system lies a hidden treasure which could spell their fortune or their destruction—but only if they survive each other first.

Marcus Warnoc has a little problem. His asteroid mining ship—his inheritance, his livelihood, and his home—has been hijacked by a pint-sized corporate heiress with enough blackmail material to sink him for good, a secret mission she won't tell him about, and enough courage to get them both killed. She may have him dead to rights, but if he doesn't turn the tables on this spoiled Martian snob, he'll be dead, period. He's not giving up without a fight.

He has a plan.

Miranda Foxgrove has the opportunity of a lifetime almost within her grasp if she can reach it. Her stolen spacecraft came with a stubborn, resourceful captain who refuses to cooperate—but he's one of the few men alive who can snatch an unimaginable treasure from beneath the muzzles of countless railguns. And if this foulmouthed Belter thug doesn't want to cooperate, she'll find a way to force him. She's come too far to give up now.

She has a plan.

They're about to find out that a plan is a list of things that won't happen.

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EARLY PRAISE FOR Theft of Fire

“...refreshingly cutting-edge, with prose as lean and no-frills as the hero’s hand rolled spaceship... The physics are so tight it feels like he spent hours plotting out each scene with a slide rule, and the characters so lovingly drawn I believed in them from the first line of dialog--including one of the most convincing post-GPT AIs I've seen in print... promises a good old-fashioned hard sci-fi adventure and then delivers so much more.” —Johnny Schmidt, author of Failure Mode

“...one hell of a yarn. It has the character development of John Varley, the plot twists of Robert E Taylor, battle scenes reminiscent of Jack Campbell, and the dramatic angst of Stephen R. Donaldson. Behind it all is an irreverent Nivenesque humor. This story grabbed me in minutes and called me back whenever I set it down”—Uncle Bob Martin, author of Clean Code

“It’s like The Expanse Series and The Polity Universe made a baby. A delightful mixed baby” —Emmett Shear, co-founder of Twitch

“Great characters, plot, and not insulting to the reader's intelligence. —Ryan Lackey, SCO of Evertas

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