title: The Life of a Thief: A Romance
author:  David McLain 
description: David McLain graduated from Purchase College, where he directed a production of William Shakespeares The Tempest. His stories have appeared in over a dozen magazines, including Harvards Dudley Review, The Paumanok Review, Grumble, Bellowing Ark and Nite Blade Magazine. The Life of a Thief is his first novel. He lives in Western Massachusetts.
zlib_text: **The Thief**
  
   **Allison Butler**
  
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   **The Thief**  
   **Allison Butler**
  
   _From Allison Butler, bestselling author of_ The Healer _, comes a sexy new
  Scottish romance about a man in search of a bride, a woman in search of a home
  and an inconvenient attraction that can’t be denied._
  
  To fulfil his father’s dying wish, Border laird Lachlan Elliot must marry and
  sire a legitimate heir, cementing his family’s name in the tumultuous
  borderlands. But his marriage will be one of convenience. Lachlan has no time
  for the pain and betrayal of love, and his land and position must always come
  first. So even when the spirited thief he catches stealing his horse turns out
  to be breathtaking – and appropriate – he vows to marry her, bed her, but
  never love her.
  
  Kenzie never wanted an arranged marriage, but to be forced to wed the
  domineering laird who catches her thieving from his lands is even worse.
  