Old Wolves Never Die [A Grandmas-vs-Goblins Heist Story]

[Participant in the June 2024 Royal Road Community Magazine Contest]

WOLF thought she was done with her One Last Job—had botched it so thoroughly that she could live out her days in peace and solitude, free from anyone or anything she cared enough to fight for.

But the past has a way of catching up with you, especially if you're a retired Assassin with mysterious powers and even stranger friends. And when an old packmate comes a-knocking with a brand new proposal to take down an all-too-familiar mark, Wolf is thrown back into a deadly battle against a Goblin army led by the sinister Urlking—and a reckoning with the darkness within her own heart—all to set right what went terribly wrong thirty years ago.

One Last Job, this time for keeps...