351 pages
English language
Published Feb. 28, 2001 by DAW Books, Distributed by Penguin Putnam.
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Mercedes Lackey's triumphant return to the best-selling world of Valdemar, Takes a Thief reveals the untold story of Skif-a popular character from Lackey's first published novel, Arrows of the Queen. Skif is a homeless orphan who lives with a gang of juvenile pickpockets...until he is "Chosen" by one of Valdemar's magical horses and becomes a Herald serving the Queen.
Subjects
- Valdemar (Imaginary place) -- Fiction
- Thieves -- Fiction
- Teenage boys -- Fiction