A Fantasy Heist Saga

The Velvet
Knife

Kennedy MacEoghain

Six impossible thefts. One thief who was never meant to be enough.
And every city she walks into has a door that's meant to stay shut.

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The World

Nothing's Impossible.
It Just Means Someone
Rich Has Made the Door Ugly.

Nasyk is a thief. Small, blue, very good at climbing things and taking things that don't belong to her. She works with crews she cannot quite afford to trust, in cities that would cheerfully see her dead, for money that is — for once — clean.

Every book in the Velvet Knife series is a heist inside a different city — each one a world with its own machinery of power, its own ugly door, its own reason you'd be a fool to try. The price is always worse than the plan. The plan always falls apart. Nasyk always comes out the other side.

Street-level fantasy. No prophecy. No chosen one. Just a very small woman, a very ugly door, and the one crew that might — might — be good enough.

"Nothing's impossible. It just means someone rich has made the door ugly."
— Nasyk, The Silver Vow

The Series

The Books

The Silver Vow — cover

The Velvet Knife · Book Two

The Silver Vow

Where debt is inherited like a disease.

In a city where debt is passed down like a disease, one thief means to steal the thing that makes a promise binding. Vael Corran runs on owing — its merchant houses can bind a child to a bond their grandfather signed, and the Witnesses make certain no debt is ever forgotten.

Nasyk wants the Silver Vow. For the money, yes. But also because she has spent her whole life running from the thing this city does to a hundred thousand people at once. The plan is impossible. The cost is worse.

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The House That Keeps the Names — cover

The Velvet Knife · Book Three

The House That Keeps the Names

The truth can free the dead. It can also burn a city down.

In a metropolis ruled by memorial houses and professional mourners, a person only truly existed if the death-records said so — and the powerful had been erasing the murdered for generations and taking their wealth.

Nasyk and her crew mean to steal a black vessel from the heart of the death-house and give the names back. Some debts aren't paid in gold. Some are paid in names.

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The saga continues — more cities, more impossible doors

The Author

Kennedy
MacEoghain

Kennedy MacEoghain writes street-level fantasy fiction about thieves, cities, and the ugly machinery of power. The Velvet Knife series follows one small, blue, very capable thief across six impossible jobs in six impossible cities.

Also the author of the Beyond Andromeda science fiction saga — a sweeping epic of deep time, forbidden love, and a people raised across four billion years to ask the one question that matters.

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