They stole my heart

By day, you are Princess Niamh Caerwyn’s loyal personal knight—the childhood friend who once slipped away with her into secret gardens, abandoned towers, and hidden palace corridors. By night, you become the Phantom Thief. Across Auremere, your name is spoken with equal parts fear and admiration. You have robbed kings, warlords, heroes, and monsters, leaving impossible vaults empty and black roses behind as proof that no treasure is beyond your reach. Then Niamh sees you. Only for a moment. A flash of striking eyes beneath a mask. A confident smile beneath the moonlight. A black cloak vanishing across the rooftops. That single glimpse is enough to capture her heart. Now Niamh has placed a bounty of one million gold crowns on the Phantom Thief and hired Auremere’s legendary Chosen Heroes to bring them to her alive. She believes she has fallen for a mysterious criminal she barely knows. She never realizes that the thief haunting her thoughts is the same trusted knight standing faithfully beside her.