A Thief in Mayfair: A Regency MM Enemies-to-Lovers Romance

By Sloane Ferris

Fourteen years ago, he sent a starving boy to Newgate for stealing his watch. Now he needs that boy to steal something back.

London, 1826. The Honourable Hugo Fanshawe has spent twenty years being careful. One coddled egg at eight. Bolts on every door. Never once looking at anything he might want. Then his late mother's writing desk is sold at auction by mistake, and in its secret drawer are twenty-three letters he wrote long ago to the man he loved, a soldier who died at Corunna. The collector who bought it takes everything to pieces. Hugo has five weeks.

Rafe Dunmore is the best locksmith in London. He's also the thief Hugo once put in Newgate, and he has never forgotten the gentleman in the witness box who wouldn't look at him.

For a price, Rafe agrees to get the letters back. To do it, he moves into Hugo's house as his valet. He shaves him every morning with a razor at his throat. He leads him over rooftops and down skylights. And he hides a secret of his own, one that ties him to those letters more closely than Hugo could ever guess.

But the letters aren't where they should be, a Bow Street officer is watching, and the man who taught Rafe everything is back in London with a score to settle. Before it's over, Hugo will have to stand in the witness box again. This time he'll have to look.

A Thief in Mayfair is a slow-burn, closed-door historical romance with a heist, a reformed thief, a gentleman learning to be brave, a found family, and a guaranteed happily ever after. It can be read as a standalone.

Perfect for readers who love: Enemies to lovers with a redemption arcAristocrat reformed thiefForced proximity (the fake valet)Heists, rooftops, and locked roomsHurt/comfort and found familySlow burn with real stakes

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HMRDYL8F
• ISBN13: 9798161855492
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"