The Inspector's Thief

"You're going to get us both hanged." His voice is low, dangerous—everything a Scotland Yard inspector should be. But Thomas Graves is crouched beside me in the dark of Victor Strand's warehouse, helping me crack a safe that could bring down London's most vicious smuggling ring. And I hate that I want him here. Kit Thorne has survived eight years on London's brutal East End streets with quick fingers, sharper wits, and one burning purpose: destroy the man who murdered her family. Victor Strand built his empire on the bodies of people like her, and Kit has spent years infiltrating his smuggling operation, waiting for the perfect moment to watch him burn. She doesn't need help. She definitely doesn't need him. Inspector Thomas Graves went undercover to expose Strand through the law. What he finds instead is a fierce pickpocket with a vendetta, a death wish, and an infuriating refusal to let him protect her. She's everything he shouldn't want—a thief, a vigilante, a woman who makes him question whether justice and the law are even the same thing. But when their separate missions collide in blood and fog, Kit and Thomas are forced into a dangerous partnership neither wants. She despises the law that never protected her. He's breaking every rule he once believed in. And somewhere between stolen intelligence and stolen kisses in the dark, their violent opposition ignites into something neither can control. Their romance doesn't come with redemption or reformation. Kit won't stop her dangerous work extracting exploited women from London's underworld. Thomas won't ask her to. Their unconventional marriage is built on brutal honesty, constant negotiation, and the understanding that love doesn't fix broken people—it just makes them less alone in the wreckage. Can a jaded inspector and an unrepentant thief forge something real in the ashes of vengeance? Or will the class divide, corruption, and violence of Victorian London tear them apart before they've begun? ?? Gritty Victorian Romance (1880s London) ?? Pickpocket Heroine × Undercover Inspector ?? Enemies to Lovers ?? Forced Partnership to Passion ?? Revenge Plot ?? Unconventional Marriage (She Stays Dangerous) ?? Class Divide Romance ?? Dark & Authentic Historical Setting ?? Vigilante Heroine Who Won't Be Tamed ?? No Sanitized Ballrooms—Just Survival & Steam Full-length standalone novel. HEA guaranteed, but not the "respectable" kind. For readers craving historical romance that doesn't flinch from the brutal realities of Victorian life—where heroines survive through grit, not social elevation.