The Gutter's Gamble

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 me...