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512 pages, Hardcover
First published October 19, 2021
Once upon a time, there was a girl as cunning as the fox in winter, as hungry as the wolf at first frost, and cold as the icy wind that kept them at each other's throats.
The little thief steals gold, but the great one steals kingdoms; and only one goes to the gallows...
❝ Little thieves steal gold, and great ones steal kingdoms, but only one goes to the gallows. ❞
"It used to be there were only white pennies,” the man was wheezing. Silver through and through. But then Kaarzstadt started sneaking copper into the coins to stretch his silver further, and the practice spread.
The blessed emperor declared any copper in a coin made it a red penny, worth one-fiftieth of a white penny.
I remember the startled, awful look on Gisele’s face then. It matched the feeling in my chest
It was the first time we understood why she was called the white penny, and I the red.
And it would not be the last.