Love is luxury. Love is Danger. Love is inconvenient…
Elodie Poirier is a servant girl with a knack for burglary and creative escapes. Every trinket she steals brings her one step closer to repaying her missing father's debts and escaping her horrid step-family. But during a heist gone wrong, she's cornered by two annoyingly handsome nobles. After barely escaping and losing her haul, her boss—a narcissistic criminal named Lazare—gives her three days to come up with what she owes or forfeit herself as payment.
Bastien, a brash young soldier, is on a mission to track down the man who poisoned the King. Finding the culprit is the only way he can earn back his father's respect and prove his worth. While setting a trap for the traitor, he corners a fiery thief in disguise who outwits him. Determined to find her, he follows clues to Elodie's doorstep, asking questions that threaten to crumble the walls of his guarded heart and unlock hers.
Set in a fictional mid-seventeenth-century French kingdom, in a dying city, this dual POV retelling of Cinderella has more bite than the original. Follow Bastien and Elodie as they navigate the cat-and-mouse dance of a clever thief trying to survive and the grumpy soldier hunting her in this story of hidden identity, dangerous allies, and the cost of carrying secrets too heavy to hold alone.
