The Kiss Thief by L.J. Shen

A romance that starts with a stolen kiss in a masquerade mask and escalates into a full-blown war of wills. The Kiss Thief is glossy Chicago power, family strategy, and a heroine caught between the life she was raised to accept and the man who forces her to want more—whether she’s ready or not.

Francesca Rossi knows the rules: loyalty is currency, marriage is strategy, and love is a luxury you don’t get to choose. She’s promised to Angelo Bandini, heir to a powerful Chicago Outfit family—an alliance meant to protect her own.

Then Senator Wolfe Keaton steps in like a storm in a tailored suit, armed with her father’s sins and the leverage to ruin them all. He doesn’t ask—he forces Francesca into a marriage she never agreed to. What begins as a power play turns into a battle of pride and control, because Wolfe doesn’t just want her name on paper—he wants her surrender. And Francesca refuses to be owned… even as he strips away the version of her that always followed the rules.

With two rivals pulling her in opposite directions, Francesca has to decide what she owes her family, what she owes herself, and whether a love story can survive when it begins with theft and ends with blood in the margins.