Angol
Sloane Avery has spent her career proving where stolen art belongs. Then her family's missing masterpiece appears at a Manhattan auction-and she breaks the rule meant to keep her away from it.
Nico Dacre steals the painting before anyone else can. He knows the men who built its immaculate false history, the handler routes designed to make evidence vanish, and the cost of surviving as their most useful thief. What he does not know is why a damaged strip hidden beneath the lining carries Sloane's dead father's name.
Forced into a tightly controlled alliance, Sloane and Nico follow forged provenance, missing condition records, and a code that can point toward corruption but prove nothing alone. Every discovery draws them closer to a powerful collector's network-and to each other. But Nico survived by deciding which truths other people could bear, and when that instinct turns against their fragile alliance, the betrayal threatens a witness they swore to protect.
To expose what happened to her father and keep the painting from disappearing again, Sloane must design a final move no thief controls. To deserve any place beside her, Nico must surrender the secrets that once kept him free and accept consequences no grand gesture can erase.
The Thief's Nocturne is a dark, high-heat romantic suspense about art crime, dangerous competence, accountability, and two adults learning that love is only real when either person can still leave.
