Bought and Bound
A Fake-Relationship Romance of Forced Proximity, a Grumpy-Sunshine Pairing, and the Promise They Couldn't KeepBy Albert A. Birchall
Length7h 16m
About this audiobook
He bought a stranger's hands to save his family name.
He didn't plan on needing the rest of her.
Sloane Maillard restores broken books for a living.
Cracked spines. Water-stained pages. Histories everyone else has given up on.
She knows how to make ruined things whole.
She just can't afford to want the man who hired her.
Julian Boudreaux is cold, exacting, and drowning in a scandal that killed his father.
The Faucheuse Manuscript ruined his family.
Forgery, the experts said. Fake.
Now he wants one conservator, one set of hands, one report he can trust—and absolute silence.
The problem: silence isn't enough.
To save the donation, the funding, and the last shred of his name, Julian needs the world to believe Sloane is more than the woman touching his ruined book.
He needs her to be his.
So they fake it.
Shared rooms. Shared smiles. A grumpy man and the woman who refuses to be intimidated by him, trapped together in a house that smells like dust and old regret.
Then, by candlelight, she finds the thing he buried in the binding—and the lie they built starts telling the truth.
"Tell me you don't feel this," he says, "and I'll let you walk out that door."
She can't.
But a fake relationship has rules.
And a real one has a cost.
When the forgery expert closes in and the manuscript gives up its last secret, Sloane has to choose between the safe distance that protects her—and the impossible man who is finally, terrifyingly real.
Some bindings hold. Some break. Hers is about to do both.
Bought and Bound is a yearning and steamy contemporary romance about a fake relationship, forced proximity, a grumpy-sunshine pairing, a buried secret, and a promise two guarded hearts were never supposed to keep.
Perfect for readers who love fake-relationship romance, brooding billionaires, forced proximity, grumpy-sunshine slow burn, and an emotional happily-ever-after. A standalone with a swoon-worthy ending.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length7 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Chapter 1 - The Smell of Dust and Regret
3Chapter 2 - The Carpet That Swallows Footsteps
4Chapter 3 - The Wrong Kind of Familiar
5Chapter 4 - Cameras and Coffee
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6Chapter 5 - The Letter He Never Read
7Chapter 6 - The Price of Trust
8Chapter 7 - Midnight in the Chapel
9Chapter 8 - Trapped Together
10Chapter 9 - The Fake and the Furious
11Chapter 10 - Broken Hearts and Broken Pages
12Chapter 11 - The Sister’s Courage
13Chapter 12 - The Safety Deposit Box
14Chapter 13 - The Artist’s Daughter
15Chapter 14 - The Confession by Candlelight
16Chapter 15 - The Evidence in the Dust
17Chapter 16 - The Swearing of the Oath
18Chapter 17 - The Sound of Two Pages
19Chapter 18 - The Night We Neither Slept
20Chapter 19 - The Cost of a Promise
21Chapter 20 - The Lie That Almost Won
22Chapter 21 - The Grand Gesture – A Brooch and a Vow
23Chapter 22 - The First Day of Not Carrying It Alone
24Chapter 23 - The Binding Contract of Two Hearts
25About the Author
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