The Card Job: A LitRPG Heist

Name: The Card Job: A LitRPG Heist
Rating: 3.85 (52 reviews)
Author: Kit Falbo

Kit Falbo

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Synopsis

A Gambler always keeps their cards close to their chest.

In the immersive game Changing Worlds, there is a galaxy of possibilities, gunfights, arena battles, intergalactic warfare, adult pleasures, and pure escapism. Hermanos Granger plays for the paper. The Change-Set a mini-game using cards akin to those introduced to him in his youth. A quest in the cards brings him back to a relationship he thought was buried, and now he has a job to do — the Card Job.

A LitRPG novella set in a pulpy space opera game world.

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