To Keep a Thief
A thief and a gentleman fight, fake, and fall in love over one Edwardian summer
by Maia Baker
A bi-for-bi, grumpy x grumpy, class-conscious (class-rageful) romance between a housekeeper and a country gentleman.
However, the housekeeper is an unscrupulous thief on the run from her ex-girlfriend, and she has never kept so much as a cottage. The gentleman is prickly, arrogant, and generally ungentlemanly, and he doesn’t know his housekeeper is actually planning to strip his house of every valuable she can find. When he hires her to run his newly inherited manor, they’re stuck in Halfwell House together for the whole summer.
What could go wrong?
Forthcoming from Berkley Romance in July 2027
(coming soon!)
Maia Baker
QUEER HISTORICAL ROMANCE WRITER
Maia Baker writes high-heat, high-intrigue romances about complicated queer people making dubiously ethical choices and falling in love in spite of themselves. By day, she helps run campaigns to tax the rich; by night, she plots happy endings for queer people in every era.
Her first book, To Keep a Thief, comes out in July 2027 with Berkley Romance.
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