Title: Stealing Her
Author: Shaw Hart
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Release Date: February 16, 2020
Publisher: Shaw Hart
Genre: Contemporary, Romance
ARC Provided From: Shaw Hart
Steele is a thief.
His village in the kingdom of Etexa is failing and it’s all because of their ruler, King Randall, and his high tariffs. While the King lives well up in his castle on the hill, the people that he’s supposed to be in charge of are starving to death and struggling down in the dirt.
Forced to choose between watching their neighbors starve or becoming criminals, Steele and his friends start robbing the King's royal carriages and giving the money back to the villagers. He’s resigned to being an outlaw with just his friends for family. Then SHE runs into him.
One look and Steele knows that he’s found the one for him. When she slips through his fingers, he vows to find her and steal her away to his place in the woods.
Princess NaShara of Etexa is alone.
Her father died when she was a young girl and her mother passed a couple of years ago. Stuck with her stepfather, the King, has left her cut off from the rest of the world. She’s tired of being locked away and dreams of running away and living a normal life with friends and maybe one day, a family.
When she sneaks out one night to go to the Harvest Festival, she’s just looking to be around people again, just for a few hours. Then she runs into Steele and everything changes.
Will NaShara’s connection to the King be too much for Steele to get past or will these two realize that what they have together is rare and worth fighting for?
*Warning: This quick instalove read is hot and sweet. The best combination. Want a hero who knows what he wants and goes after it? How about a heroine who is more than happy to give him control in the bedroom? Then click that button because this book is for you!
The good king is long dead, his wife now too. The daughter left behind is heavily guarded by her late mother's second husband. He's cruel to those under his rule, unfeeling and uncaring of their suffering, taxing and demanding all of their coins to finance his lifestyle. His people are worse than destitute. Morale is at an all time low.
Steele's tired of watching his fellow townsfolk suffer. He takes action, leading a group of men against the king by robbing his treasury and giving it back to the townsfolk. A modern day Robin Hood who, by chance, meets his Maid Marian during the Harvest Festival. Maid Marian who happens to be the Princess NaShara.
NaShara's physical suffering isn't as great as the good townsfolk of Etexa, but the emotional and mental suffering is. Alone in the palace and the world, she longs for more, for the chance to live and be free. It comes when she boldly sneaks away from the palace and runs into Steele who, after one look and one touch, claims her with a kiss and a promise.
The relationship is insta-everything, exactly what I expected Ms. Hart to write; I was just wanting more character depth. However, the lack of it didn't lessen the story's beauty or its happy ending. It's a good story--quick, sweet, and with the right amount of sexy.
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