Takes a Thief takes readers back to the stunning world of Mercedes Lackey's widely acclaimed Valdemar series. Here, at last, is the untold story of Skif-a character from Lackey's first published novel, Arrows of the Queen. Skif is a homeless orphan who lives with a gang of juvenile pickpockets...until he is "Chosen" by one of Valdemar's magical horses and becomes a Herald serving the Queen.