The Muse and Her Thief

Alexander of Macedon vanquished every empire that stood against him, wept because there were no more worlds to conquer, and died of a plate of bad oysters. As his spear-won lands descended into anarchy, his successors squabbled over his legacy—and played a game of international tug-of-war over his mortal remains...

Egypt, 321 BC

Swashbuckling schoolteacher-by-day, thief-by-night Demetrios can never make amends for his role in the looting of the greatest archive in the world—but for ten years he's made a career of stealing back its artifacts, piece by piece, from the treasuries of Alexander's successors.

When a fatal blunder gets him arrested mid-heist, he finds himself offered a choice between a grisly public execution and a job. He might prefer the execution. Because the job is a corpse heist masterminded by a literal Muse only he can see, and the mark is the most powerful man in the Mediterranean.

Recruiting a motley heist crew, Demetrios reluctantly sets out to intercept Alexander's funeral cortege. He's up against warring generals, fanatical soldiers, an unpredictable barbarian dowager, a herd of war elephants, and a guard hellhound chained to a temple on wheels at the head of the greatest funeral cortege the Mediterranean world has ever seen. 

But it’s from the faith of mortals that hungry and volatile new gods are wrought, and there’s an awful lot of faith in the deified Alexander floating around…

Expected release: 2027