title: Thief of Hearts: A Novel
author:  Teresa Medeiros 
description: Historical romance readers searching for the dangerous, dark, brooding hero of the 1970s only have to look to Medeiros's (A Whisper of Roses) Captain Doom. Here's a rebel with a cause-to clear his name, which had been maligned by the ambitious Admiral Snow, leaving Doom to spend five years in a windowless dungeon. Doom's black phantom ship intercepts one carrying the admiral's daughter, Lucy. Although hardly able to believe his luck, Doom's conscience won't allow him to ravish her, which would, if not clear his name, at least blacken Snow's. Doom lets her go and then reappears later as Gerard Claremont, applying for the position of Lucy's bodyguard. While his purpose is to find documents in the admiral's house that will clear his name and incriminate the admiral, his constant contact with Lucy leaves Gerard torn between revenge and love. Lucy, an endearing heroine long deprived of her father's love, is also torn-between the mysterious Doom and Gerard. At length Doom reveals himself, Lucy learns a startling truth about her father, and there's some great high-seas adventure. Long-time historical romance readers will recognize this type of hero and many will breath a sigh of relief on discovering he is still alive and kicking around in a few authors' imaginations. <br />Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  A THIEF’S HEART
  
  
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  A. CAPRICE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places and incidents
  are products of the writer’s imagination. Any resemblance to persons, living
  or dead, actual events, locales or organizations is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any manner
  whatsoever without written permission from the author except in the case of
  brief quotation embodied in critical articles and reviews.
  
  
  A THIEF’S HEART
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 A. Caprice
  
  
  Cover design by Dar Albert
  
  
  Originally published by Ellora’s Cave under the same title © 2015
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A THIEF’S HEART
  
  
  
  
  
  The talented agents of ARC, a covert paranormal agency, are tasked with saving
  the world from preternatural predators. Their missions are hot…and their
  nights even hotter.
  
  
  
  
  
  It’s gone.
  
  
  The priceless artifact entrusted to her care.
  
  
  Stolen.
  
  
  And everyone think