We’re celebrating another wonderful release this week. The Mark of Thieves is a Robin Hood reimagining by Kate Malden and it’s available August 27th!
The Mark of Thieves (Iustitia Aecum Book 1)
Release Date: August 27, 2025
Genre: Historical/ Folklore/Gaslamp
- Robin Hood reimagining
- Angst
- Slow burn
- Victorian era
- Found family
- Forced proximity
- Morally gray FMC
- Protective MMC
- Snarky thieves
- Betrayal
- Captivity
- Multiple POV
- Wit and banter
Will Wardrew—charming, quick-witted, and brash—uses his wiles to steal for his gang, Iustitia Aecum. Time and again, chance brings him face-to-face with Bree, a down-on-her-luck IA thief who guards her heart as closely as her secrets.
In twin strokes of misfortune, both Will and Bree end up in the clutches of Baden Hatchett, the relentless police officer determined to capture every last IA thief and bring the gang to its knees. Will only wants to protect his family, and Bree only wants to lay the ghosts of her past to rest, but now they face a terrible choice: betray the gang or face a lifetime of imprisonment.
What Hatchett doesn’t know is that Bree owes Will her life—and, following an ill-fated, impulsive kiss, she just may owe him her heart, too. How can she double-cross the boy who’s saved her not once, but twice?
TRIGGERS:
- violence
- foul language
- arrest, jail, and associated imprisonment and restraint use
- abusive and corrupt law enforcement
- rampant misogyny
- mention of sexual assault
- threat of / attempted sexual assault
- abusive family members / domestic abuse
- psychological and physical torture
- period-accurate (1880s) terminology around mental health
- threat of being institutionalized / committed to a psychiatric hospital
- forced/unpaid labour
- some flippant, irreverent discussion of crime, sex, violence, and death
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