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Length9h 23m
About this audiobook
Some people leave your life.
Others leave fingerprints on your heart that never really fade.
Ivy Vale returns to her coastal hometown for her father’s funeral expecting grief, guilt, and old memories. What she doesn’t expect is Adrian Cross — the quiet, guarded hotel owner who seems to understand every broken part of her without asking questions she can’t answer.
But coming home means facing more than the past.
Her family business is drowning in debt. Rumors spread faster than the ocean wind. And the closer Ivy gets to Adrian, the more she realizes he’s hiding tragedies of his own — including a vanished fiancée, secrets buried inside a cliffside mansion, and guilt he wears like armor.
What begins as an arrangement built on necessity slowly turns into something neither of them planned:
late-night confessions, fake smiles that feel too real, almost-kisses, impossible choices, and a love both of them are terrified to trust.
Kiss Me Like a Lie is an emotional slow-burn romance about grief, second chances, emotional scars, and the kind of love that survives even after people try to destroy it.
For readers who love deeply human romance with tension, vulnerability, coastal atmosphere, and characters who feel painfully real long after the final page.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length9 hrs 23 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 — The Funeral in Black Heels
2Chapter 2 — Rules for Pretending
3Chapter 3 — A House Full of Ghosts
4Chapter 4 — The Boy in the Rain
5Chapter 5 — Keep Your Distance
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6Chapter 6 — Rumors by the Sea
7Chapter 7 — The Art of Almost Touching
8Chapter 8 — Midnight Kitchen Confessions
9Chapter 9 — The Letters Hidden in Blue Boxes
10Chapter 10 — Things We Never Say
11Chapter 11 — Saltwater and Scars
12Chapter 12 — The Ex Who Came Back
13Chapter 13 — Fake Smiles, Real Jealousy
14Chapter 14 — Dancing with Disaster
15Chapter 15 — Tell Me Something True
16Chapter 16 — The Woman in the Photograph
17Chapter 17 — Love Me Enough to Leave
18Chapter 18 — A Kiss Meant Goodbye
19Chapter 19 — Cities Don’t Heal Hearts
20Chapter 20 — The Bookstore on Hollow Street
21Chapter 21 — When Your Name Appears Again
22Chapter 22 — The Storm Returns
23Chapter 23 — Everything We Buried
24Chapter 24 — Stay This Time
25Chapter 25 — The Night the Ocean Rose
26Chapter 26 — Bruised Hearts Beat Too
27Chapter 27 — Home Isn’t a Place
28Chapter 28 — Kiss Me Like a Lie
29EPILOGUE — Years Later
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