She's a princess on a mission. He's a dismissive diplomat. But the rules will bind them both.

Princess Isabella Echtarch was tasked with a simple but important job: travel to the recently annexed kingdom of Onson, a foreign land oozing with wealth and home to the prideful and powerful dragonkin, and educate them on proper Aurelian court protocol. When she is introduced to Remy Legrand, the appointed dragonkin diplomat, she expects to be treated with all the respect her station deserves. Instead, his dismissive demeanor forces her to prove that she's more than just a pampered princess.

Remy Legrand wants nothing more than to get the business of bending the knee to the Aurelian Empire over with as soon as possible. But when Isabella takes his dismissive demeanor as unwilling to learn the new protocols, she demands that Remy follow her to her home in the rolling hills of Vinitore. Now, Remy has to quickly find his footing to help his people, on top of starting to fall for the headstrong princess.

In this stand-alone novella, set hundreds of years before the main Thieving Hearts series, see how the dragonkin of Onson began their alliance with the Aurelian Empire, one snatched kiss at a time.