Steal Me If You Can

She came to New York with a dead woman's letter, a blackmail envelope, and a plan.What she didn't plan for was him.Hannah Thatcher has been waiting twelve years for this moment.The Hargrove Ballet Company's principal stage. The prima ballerina role her dying mother spent her last months arranging — paid for with photographs, secrets, and the specific ferocious love of a woman who refused to leave her daughter with nothing. Now Hannah is in New York, engaged to the heir of the most powerful ballet dynasty in the city, standing on the edge of everything she was promised.She has a plan. The plan is solid. The plan does not include what happens next.A man with blood on his face sits beside her on a train.He presses a gun to her ribs. He tells her, in a voice that is perfectly, impossibly calm: Moan, or I slit your pretty little throat.She saves his life. She steals his gun.She has absolutely no idea — not yet — that the most dangerous man in New York is about to become the only person who has ever looked at her like she's worth protecting. Or that he's been carrying her photograph in his jacket since the night he first watched her dance. Or that he is, devastatingly, her fiancé's brother.Jack Hargrove is the Hargrove they don't put in press releases.Twenty-three years in the Reaper Assassin Guild. A hundred million dollars on his head and rising. A reputation built on the principle that attachment is a liability and sentiment is a weapon other people use against you.He has catalogued his own weaknesses with the same precision he brings to everything else. He knows exactly what he can and cannot afford.He has never been wrong about it before.He has never met Hannah Thatcher before.This is a story about two sharp, dangerous people who are exactly alike.About a woman who blackmails her way into a ballet company and discovers that the dream she was given and the dream she builds are not the same dream — but that both are hers. About a man who has spent two decades being a weapon and encounters, for the first time, something worth laying the weapon down for.It is a story about ambition and the cost of it. About the difference between a dream and a cage. About the specific, irrevocable moment when you realize that the person you were most afraid of loving is the only one who has ever seen you clearly.And underneath all of it — underneath the blackmail and the ballet and the hundred million dollars and the guns and the feathers scattered across a ruined theater floor — it is a story about a mother.A woman who spent her dying days building a door and trusting her daughter to walk through it.The stage is set. The trap is waiting. And Hannah Thatcher has never once stopped for anything in her life.This is not the ballet you know. This is the one that happens in the dark.STEAL ME IF YOU CAN is a full-length standalone dark romance novel perfect for readers who love:Forbidden romance between a heroine and her fiancé's dangerously compelling brotherA morally grey assassin hero who falls first and falls hardA fierce, ambitious heroine who fights for everything she has — and wins on her own termsSlow burn tension that builds across twenty chapters before it breaksA dark, lush, operatic world of New York ballet and organized crimeEmotional depth alongside the heat — secrets, sacrifice, betrayal, and the kind of love that asks everything of you