Pact of Shadows

Wren Ashford is the best thief in Valecrest -- which is why the Guild owns her. Twenty-four, orphaned, and drowning in a debt to Guildmaster Corvin Vex that grows no matter how much she steals, she takes the job that will finally buy her freedom: crack the deep vaults of the Temple of the Covenant and steal a sealed vial.

The vial breaks in her hands.

Inside was a soul -- Liora, a sorceress murdered three hundred years ago on the altar steps of the Umbral Court, the lost love of Prince Malachar, the demon prince who has mourned her ever since. The broken binding doesn't free Liora. It chains Wren to Malachar instead: soul-bound, marked, unable to stray more than a league from a prince who would rather be anywhere than near the thief who destroyed his last hope.

Queen Sarella offers Wren a bargain: the greatest heist of her life. Whoever shattered Liora's binding ritual three centuries ago is still at the Shadow Court -- and they know exactly what Wren stole.

She came to rob the Court of Shadows. Now she's bound to its prince, hunted by its killer, and the truth is the one thing she can't afford to steal.