The Hare and the Jackal

"Everything's a con, Creed."

"Everything but us."

When Creed managed to escape the Wolfguard—the Seerish Church's army of mind-controlled shifters—ten years ago, he did not foresee a decade living alongside the brilliant, jaded Lady Prince, runaway heir to the Morgenhausen empire. They've since transformed themselves into notorious con men, tomb raiders, and lensers: practitioners of the dark, forbidden magic the Seerish Church seeks to stamp out.

But as freshly uncovered tombs begin to dwindle and bounty hunters close in, Isabella and Creed are forced to take a risky job from Isabella's manipulative father, the Lord Sovereign, to jumpstart their leap into a new branch of dark magic. The job seems simple: start a rebellion in one of the empire's independent city-states... until the Wolfguard unexpectedly find them again and their handler—the bewitching socialite, Lady Barbaron—proves more alluring to Creed than anyone expected.

As Isabella struggles to unravel her father's true motives and Creed grapples with his own desires, they find that staying together demands more than it ever has before. Is everything just a con? Or can love continue to be the exception?