Length8h 29m
About this audiobook
A six-month contract.
Zero feelings allowed.
One very public disaster waiting to happen.
Caleb Thorne believes in precision, clean data, and the comfort of a well-built spreadsheet. Jules Vane believes in optics, strategy, and surviving one more impossible day. When Jules needs a grounded, respectable boyfriend to help secure her biggest political client, Caleb agrees to a strictly professional arrangement: show up on cue, follow the script, and do not catch feelings.
It should have been simple. But staged brunches turn into private jokes, midnight strategy sessions blur into real intimacy, and one off-script kiss changes the math. Then a spreadsheet reduces their relationship to measurable milestones, trust shatters in the most public way possible, and the cameras catch everything.
Now the contract is collapsing, the headlines are merciless, and the only thing riskier than telling the truth is pretending they ever meant nothing at all.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 2, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
20Chapter 19: The Reframing Crisis
2Chapter 1: The Precision of Solitude
21Chapter 20: Deepening Doubt: The Management Mask
3Chapter 2: The Binary Collision
22Chapter 21: The Spreadsheet of Sentiment
4Chapter 3: The Shadow of Sterling
23Chapter 22: Shields Up
5Chapter 4: Fragile Fronts
24Chapter 23: The Perfume and the Paper
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6Chapter 5: The Persistence of Jules
25Chapter 24: The Brittle Mask of Beatrice
7Chapter 6: No Way #1: The Statistical Impossibility
26Chapter 25: The Gala Pavilion Pressure
8Chapter 7: Adhesion: The Contract of Necessity
27Chapter 26: The Breakup: The Crystal Death Knell
9Chapter 8: Curation and Chaos
28Chapter 27: The Silence of the Aftermath
10Chapter 9: No Way #2: The Prop's Protest
29Chapter 28: Dark Night of the Soul: The Inaccurate Heart
11Chapter 10: The Sterling Scrutiny
30Chapter 29: The Uncurated Crisis
12Chapter 11: The Inkling: Uncurated Moments
31Chapter 30: Wake Up: The Bodega Epiphany
13Chapter 12: Patterns of Attraction
32Chapter 31: The Logic of Forgiveness
14Chapter 13: Deepening Desire: The Ear Tuck
33Chapter 32: Grand Gesture: The Public Truth
15Chapter 14: Maybe This Time: The Rooftop Revelation
34Chapter 33: The Uncurated Kiss
16Chapter 15: The Morning After Algorithm
35Chapter 34: Whole-hearted: The Dawn of the Real
17Chapter 16: Midpoint of Love: The False High
36Chapter 35: Epilogue: The Margin of Happiness
18Chapter 17: The Weight of Authenticity
37Acknowledgments
19Chapter 18: Inkling of Doubt: The Authentic Fraud
38About the Author
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