The Smoke Thief - Shana Ab

For centuries they've lived in secret among northern England's green and misted hills.
Creatures of extraordinary beauty, power, and sensuality, they possess the ability
to shape-shift from human to dragon and back again.
Now their secret-and their survival-is
threatened by a temptation that will break every boundary. . . .

Dubbed the Smoke Thief,
a daring jewel thief is confounding the London police. His wealthy victims claim
the master burglar can walk through walls and vanish into thin air. But Christoff,
the charismatic Marquess of Langford, knows the truth: the thief is no ordinary human
but a "runner" who's fled Darkfrith without permission. As Alpha leader of the drakon,
it's Kit's duty to capture the fugitive before the secrets of the tribe are revealed
to mortals. But not even Kit suspects that the Smoke Thief could be a woman.

Clarissa
Rue Hawthorne knew her dangerous exploits would attract the attention of the drakon.
But she didn't expect Christoff himself to come to London, dangling the tribe's most
valuable jewel-the Langford Diamond-as bait. For as long as she could remember, Rue
had lived the life of a halfling-half drakon, half mortal-and an outcast in both
worlds. She'd always loved the handsome and willful Kit from the only place it was
safe: from afar. But now she was no longer the shy, timid girl she'd once been. She
was the first woman capable of making the Turn in four generations. So why did she
still feel the same dizzying sense of vulnerability whenever he was near?

From the
moment he saw her, Kit knew that the alluring and powerful beauty was every bit his
Alpha equal and destined to be his bride. And by the harsh laws of the drakon, Rue
knew that she was the property of the marquess. But they will risk banishment and
worse for a chance at something greater. For now Rue is his prisoner, the diamond
has disappeared, and she's made the kind of dangerous proposition a man like Kit
cannot resist. . . .

In this bewitching novel, Shana Ab transports us into a world of
exhilarating romance and magic.