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The Velvet Knife

The Velvet Knife

Kling, David Oliver

Paperback

FantasyMystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798193569855
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 18 2026
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In a city without a master, silence is the deadliest blade.

The Thieves Guild is bleeding out. Guildmaster Rennick Thorne has been silenced by black wine - a poison meant to paralyze, not to kill - leaving Lowgate Ward a carcass for the vultures. As rival captains like the brutal Rusk Bellringer tear the Guild apart from the inside, Mace is forced to discard his code of mercy to handle a war of betrayal.

But the true threat isn't the muscle in the streets. Behind the black iron doors of the Highstones, the banker Silas Wren is harvesting the city's past. Through his horrific arithmetic, he has created the Name-Dead - souls trapped in ledgers because their debts outlived their bodies.

While Mace fights a street war, Serra Voss builds the Velvet Network, an invisible web of laundresses and market women who see what men in power assume is beneath their notice. In a world where loyalty is a trap, Mace must decide what kind of Guild is worth saving - and if he is still the man to save it.

The Velvet Knife takes the series into darker, more violent territory, exploring the heavy personal cost of survival in a city built on secrets.

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