After six-year-old Maya’s brutal hit-and-run, Dahlia Buck’s world collapses. Her husband Dillon brings home a pale, sickly boy and tells her Maya’s heart keeps him alive. Grief makes Dahlia surrender everything—her body, her savings, her future—to raise the child she believes carries a piece of her lost daughter. When a sudden, exhausted death claims her, Dahlia expects nothing. But she wakes up to find Maya at her bedside, alive and small and shaking with apology. Reborn into a life she once thought was over, Dahlia discovers the truth: the boy she loved was never hers. He is Dillon’s secret son, suffering a congenital heart disease; Maya was engineered into the wrong fate. The “donation” that killed her daughter was calculated. The people she trusted—her husband, his mother, and a ruthless mistress named Angela—stole a life from one child to save another. Dahlia crawls back from the grave with one thing on her mind: reclaim what was stolen. She files for divorce, hires a PI, goes viral to expose lies, drags a corrupt surgeon into the light, and fights tooth and nail for Maya. Along the way, she crosses paths with Baltasar Campos, a weathered investigative journalist with a painful past and an infuriatingly reserved heart. He offers help, and slowly, something warmer grows between them: fierce loyalty that becomes love. Heart for a Thief is a fast, emotional second-chance revenge romance about a mother who refuses to be robbed of her child—by anyone. Expect courtroom clashes, livestream mob cruelty, broken families, moral collisions, and a slow-burning love that proves some hearts are meant to heal one another.