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The Gutter's Gamble
Paperback
Series: The Gutter's Gamble, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerRomanceHistorical Fiction
Publisher: New Leaf Books
Published: May 29 2026
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
MELBOURNE, 1880. A booming colonial metropolis built on gold, polished with silk, and choked by the soot of its own roaring engine. To the aristocracy, it is a paradise of progress. To the ghosts of the Low End, it is a furnace that consumes the forgotten.
Flynn is one of those ghosts. A street-sharp thief who survives by calculating the lethal friction of the back-alleys, he knows how to disappear-until a high-stakes gamble offers him a passport into the ivory towers of the elite.
Then he meets Philomena.
An artist who looks at the world with the same sharp, uncompromising eye as Flynn. Their collision isn't a polite parlor romance; it is a visceral, intoxicating shock of recognition between two survivalists who see right through each other's masks. In a city built on grand deceptions, she becomes his only truth-and his greatest vulnerability.
But machines have no mercy, and masks have a habit of slipping.
When Flynn's clever social heist triggers a lethal web of blackmail and a sudden, stomach-churning horror, the game turns into a breathless, blood-soaked race through the city's dark underbelly. Hunted by a ruthless underworld puppet-master, Flynn must decide how much of his own humanity he is willing to burn to save the woman who truly sees him.
Because in a town where the rich play at being gods, a nobody with a stolen blade and a desperate love is the most dangerous mechanism of all.
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