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
2Chapter 1: The Precision of Solitude
3Chapter 2: The Binary Collision
4Chapter 3: The Shadow of Sterling
5Chapter 4: Fragile Fronts
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6Chapter 5: The Persistence of Jules
7Chapter 6: No Way #1: The Statistical Impossibility
8Chapter 7: Adhesion: The Contract of Necessity
9Chapter 8: Curation and Chaos
10Chapter 9: No Way #2: The Prop's Protest
11Chapter 10: The Sterling Scrutiny
12Chapter 11: The Inkling: Uncurated Moments
13Chapter 12: Patterns of Attraction
14Chapter 13: Deepening Desire: The Ear Tuck
15Chapter 14: Maybe This Time: The Rooftop Revelation
16Chapter 15: The Morning After Algorithm
17Chapter 16: Midpoint of Love: The False High
18Chapter 17: The Weight of Authenticity
19Chapter 18: Inkling of Doubt: The Authentic Fraud
20Chapter 19: The Reframing Crisis
21Chapter 20: Deepening Doubt: The Management Mask
22Chapter 21: The Spreadsheet of Sentiment
23Chapter 22: Shields Up
24Chapter 23: The Perfume and the Paper
25Chapter 24: The Brittle Mask of Beatrice
26Chapter 25: The Gala Pavilion Pressure
27Chapter 26: The Breakup: The Crystal Death Knell
28Chapter 27: The Silence of the Aftermath
29Chapter 28: Dark Night of the Soul: The Inaccurate Heart
30Chapter 29: The Uncurated Crisis
31Chapter 30: Wake Up: The Bodega Epiphany
32Chapter 31: The Logic of Forgiveness
33Chapter 32: Grand Gesture: The Public Truth
34Chapter 33: The Uncurated Kiss
35Chapter 34: Whole-hearted: The Dawn of the Real
36Chapter 35: Epilogue: The Margin of Happiness
37Acknowledgments
38About the Author
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