Take a Thief by Mercedes Lackey
One of Mercedes Lackey’s most popular characters is Herald Skif, the young former thief who we met in the first two VALDEMAR trilogies (HERALDS OF VALDEMAR and MAGE WINDS). In Take a Thief (2001), a stand-alone prequel novel, Lackey gives us his backstory.
It starts as so many of her stories do. Skif is a young orphaned boy who is basically a slave to his cruel uncle.
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