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The Probability Thief
Paperback
Series: The Inheritance Wars, Book 2
FantasyScience FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781996819180
Publisher: John Hempstock
Published: Jan 18 2026
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Elias Chen-Valdez can steal luck from anyone-but every probability he manipulates creates cosmic debts that must be paid. When his five-year gambling addiction destroys forty-seven guardian families across multiple realities, their consciousness evolution attempts collapse into stagnation, and thirty billion beings lose the ability to believe in beneficial change.
Now Elias must face the transformed guardians he wronged-beings who have become living embodiments of consequence, existing specifically to collect debts from those who steal cosmic luck. As reality itself begins to fracture from accumulated probability manipulation, Elias discovers his gambling wasn't random-he was recruited by entities who profit from preventing consciousness evolution across the multiverse.
With his sisters Maya and Zara, Elias races to restart forty-seven failed consciousness evolutions before the Stagnation Collective implements barriers that will freeze development permanently. But helping damaged realities recover means confronting the shame of his past mistakes while learning that redemption isn't about undoing harm-it's about transforming consequences into wisdom that prevents future suffering.
A cosmic-scale story about addiction, accountability, and the revolutionary discovery that failure can become the foundation for achievements greater than success alone could produce. The Probability Thief explores themes of personal responsibility, collective healing, and the profound truth that consciousness grows strongest when it learns to support itself through transformation.
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