How to Get Caught by Scott Truchot

Fourteen-year-old Lira Voss is the smartest person on Elysara, a pastel paradise where gratitude is mandatory and the weather is emotionally supportive. One tiny tweak to a rounding error hands her 4.8 billion credits from the corporation that owns the planet. She borrows a grown-up face, runs for a corporate space station, and loses the fortune by lunch. The only road to The Mirage, the galaxy's greatest thief, runs straight through a maximum-security prison, so Lira has to get caught. Correctly.

Young Adult • Humor and Satire • Crime Fiction • Science Fiction/Comic and Light SF

Length: 59,000 words (about 169 pages)