The Gilded Falcon Heist

Danique Oosterkerk is the most wanted thief across the floating ziggurats of the Tri-Vault, famous for her daring roof-top escapes and complete lack of reverence for the gods. Joris van Veldt is the champion of the Dawn Shield: solemn, impossibly broad-shouldered, and sworn by sacred oath to bring her to the bronze cages. But when Danique scales the high sanctum to liberate the priceless Falcon-Aegis, Joris corners her just as traitorous cultists blow the temple’s keystone to dust. Falling together through the cloud-belts on a single kinetic grapple-stone, Joris saves her life—and Danique repays the favor by stealing his breath. Now branded fugitives together, they must dance across crumbling mountain plates, trading wicked parries and searing kisses while running from every soldier in the sky.