The Honest Fence: A Cozy Heist LitRPG

The best crew of thieves in the Vale went straight ten years ago, and it broke every one of them.Corbin Finch runs a pawnshop-teahouse in the canal town of Locksbridge, and he has spent a decade being very carefully nobody. Then the Ledger, the region's polite, paper-pushing System, hands him a class nobody else wants: Restitutionist. It pays Standing for exactly one kind of quest. Take a looted heirloom. Carry it home. Tell absolutely no one.Which means every job is still a break-in. He still needs a door specialist, a distraction, and a plan with at least one contingency too many. He just gets the old crew back one heist at a time instead of one grudge at a time, starting with the door specialist who has not spoken to him in ten years and the mentor who took the fall for a job Corbin planned.The Ledger only pays if nobody ever finds out who did it. That rule is about to get very inconvenient.A cozy heist LitRPG: the System rewards giving things back, not taking themFound-family crew reassembly, one reluctant recruitment at a timePlans that are genuinely clever and fail at a very human rateA ten-year silence and the apology it takes an entire book to earnNo violence, no harem, no cliffhanger: just a retired con man learning to be found