HASTY HEIST IN DUBAI

A Hasty Heist in DubaiWhen Iranian missiles rain down on Dubai, six strangers find shelter in the basement of the world's most exclusive hotel. Among them: Edrees Mbeki, a celebrity bodyguard with a moral code; his wife Carla, a South American cabaret singer who never met a mark she couldn't read; their daughter Lucina, a 23-year-old programming genius who trusts code more than people; and three Australians-Kylie, her Aboriginal tracker boyfriend Daku, and her brother Hamish, a shy surfer who trains Hollywood stars.Downstairs with them are the hotel's permanent residents: obscenely wealthy couples who treat the apocalypse as an inconvenience, flaunting diamonds and hardware wallets while the world burns. As the bombardment stretches from days into weeks, the six outsiders forge an unlikely bond-and a dangerous plan.Why steal from criminals? Because in a basement where the rich treat survival like a VIP lounge, morality becomes negotiable. Carla will perform. Daku will track. Lucina will crack their digital vaults. And when a corrupt American colonel discovers their scheme, he'll make them an offer they can't refuse: partnership, or exposure.Over two weeks of tension, romance sparks between Hamish and Lucina-two wounded souls learning to trust amid chaos. But trust has limits. When the heist succeeds and escape looms, the colonel reveals he's eliminated their marks permanently. The thieves become accomplices to murder. The only way out is forward.A Hasty Heist in Dubai is a fast-paced thriller about class, survival, and the lines we'll cross when the world stops watching. Part heist novel, part wartime romance, it asks: if you steal from monsters, do you become one? And does it matter, as long as you get out alive? Read more