It Takes a Thief by Charissa Gracyk

Linc

I’m The Safecracker and The Muscle.

My latest job has me guarding royalty. Everything about Princess Merritt Fontaine intrigues me—she’s beautiful, elegant, graceful…a true lady through and through. But she’s completely out of my league. I’m a nobody, and she deserves better than a battle-scarred, washed-up former MMA fighter like me.

We come from two totally different worlds, but I’ll protect her at all costs, even if it means breaking my carefully established rules and losing my heart to a woman I can never truly have.

Merritt

I’m the reluctant Princess, desperate to lead a normal life.

I made a deal with my parents: if I don’t find someone special by my twenty-fifth birthday, I’ll return home and marry the man they’ve chosen, despite not loving him. With only two weeks left, I ask my hot-as-sin bodyguard to act as my fake fiancé—and he promptly says no.

When I ask why, he tells me he has three rules when it comes to women: no drama, one night only and never mix business with pleasure. But his heated glances tell a different story, and I want to help him smash his rules to smithereens.

Just as we begin to get close, danger strikes, and Linc jumps into action to protect me. Then the threat turns toward him, and I’ll do anything to save the man I’m falling in love with—even if it means racing across an ocean, teaming up with thieves and throwing myself into a deadly cage fight.