A Crown for the Thief

A Crown for the Thief:A Locksmith's Historical Romantic Suspense of a Hidden Heiress

THE OWNER'S TABLE BOOK 5

She was hired to rob the vault. She was born to own it.

Della Harrow reads locks, marks and pockets for a living, the only trade the burial-club quarter ever taught a girl filed small on purpose. When the woman who raised her dies quietly, accounts current, nothing owed, Della takes the one job she swore she never would: rob her own dead mistress's fortune out from under the auction house guarding it.

Reuben Vane builds locks he has already tried, and failed, to beat himself, which is the only kind of promise his trade lets him sell. His vault has never once been cracked. Then a job walks through his door wearing a thief's patience and hands he cannot read back.

"Not priced. Held."

When the proving turns Della's own hands into the evidence, the thief who came to steal a dead woman's vault discovers what an entire conspiracy was built to make of her. To survive it, she and the one man who can finally read her have to stop working the job from opposite sides of his iron and build something neither of their trades has a name for.

She has spent her whole life banking favors and never once asking for anything. Now she has to learn the one word her entire trade forbids.

A Crown for the Thief is a slow-burn historical romance and a heist in one: a master thief, a master locksmith, a hidden heir, a found family worth more than the fortune, and a kitchen table with a third chair kept for whoever needs it. Open-door heat, on-page danger, and an ending that holds.

A complete standalone. One couple, one full story, no cliffhanger, guaranteed happily-ever-after. Book Five of The Owner's Table, a series of dark romantic suspense novels set in one connected world. Read them in any order. A Standalone Novel in a Connected World.

For readers 18+. Contains explicit consensual scenes and on-page violence.