After eight years on a prison planet, for a crime they did commit - to be fair, Edie Morikawa, thief and con artist, gets out and is determined to live the straight and narrow life. First challenge? Getting a ship off the planet. And waiting for Edie is Angel Huang. Angel is the person who sold them out and left them to their fate on the icy prison planet. But transportation off the rock aren't plentiful and Edie knows that they can accept the ride and still reject Angel's plan for one more big score. That's easier said than done of course or this wouldn't be one of the best SF heist novels I've read in an age. Edie gets sucked into Angel's plotting and soon is deep in what could be the score of a lifetime or a one-way ticket back to prison for the rest of their life. Along the way they'll build a team of found family and perhaps resolve their relationship, complicated as it is, with Angel, once and for all.
The introductory chapters as you're getting to know all the players is a slow-build, but once the heist plan is set in motion? I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. Even without reading the blurb, I thought of Oceans Eight (which I loved) as I read this book - if Oceans Eight was peopled by queer characters and took place in space. Great, fun stuff.