Length7h 20m
About this audiobook
Nora Hartley told a man in a diner booth that she would keep him safe.
Michael Chen was a former accountant for Vane Development, a father of two, frightened enough that his hands shook when he lifted his coffee cup. His daughter was turning seven the following week and he had told her he would be home.
They left the diner separately and met in the parking garage on 12th, exactly as planned. Nora had one hand on the door handle when the world went white.
She woke up in a hospital. He did not.
Now she is sitting in the Riverside Diner in Cedar River with a plan rattling around her skull like a loose bolt. She has to get Tessa out before Silas Vane's deal closes.
Her sister has already signed a preliminary agreement. Vane has spent eighteen months buying riverfront property through shell companies, and everybody he bought from had something in common: financial trouble, a family emergency, a legal problem they could not afford to fight.
So Nora does the thing she swore she would never do again. She starts asking questions, behind a cover story about writing up hidden river towns.
That is how she ends up in a garage with a mechanic named Liam Ashford, who has a limp, a wrench, and a photograph lying face-down beside his keyboard. On the back, in careful block letters: *Ashford Family, Driftwood Bay, 2019.*
Driftwood Bay is the coastal town where Vane put up his last resort. There were displaced residents, environmental damage, and a lawsuit settled quietly out of court. And one more thing. *"Because my sister lived in Driftwood Bay,"* Liam says, *"and she didn't make it out."*
He is not a mechanic. Nora works that much out early. What takes longer is what he actually is, who he answers to, and why somebody in a field office three hours north pulled a seven-year-old case file two weeks ago.
A small-town romantic suspense about a reporter who promised never to make another promise she could not keep, a man whose entire life in this town is a cover story, and a developer who does not leave loose ends. The romance is closed-door.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length7 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Prologue
3Chapter 1 - The Lie I Told Myself First
4Chapter 2 - The Welcome I Should Have Packed For
5Chapter 3 - The Price Of A Ride
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6Chapter 4 - The Town That Whispers
7Chapter 5 - The Fire That Changes Everything
8Chapter 6 - The Wound He Won’t Talk About
9Chapter 7 - The Map He Doesn’t Want Me To See
10Chapter 8 - The Arrest That Brought Us Closer
11Chapter 9 - The Distance We Create
12Chapter 10 - The Bridge Where Honesty Begins
13Chapter 11 - The Confession He Didn’t Want To Make
14Chapter 12 - The Closer We Get, The Deeper The Trap
15Chapter 13 - The Commitment We Make Mid-Fire
16Chapter 14 - The Shadow He Casts
17Chapter 15 - The Phone Call She Shouldn’t Have Heard
18Chapter 16 - The Walk Of A Liar
19Chapter 17 - The Sister Who Slips Away
20Chapter 18 - The Safe That Proves Nothing
21Chapter 19 - The Truth He Never Told Me
22Chapter 20 - The Betrayer’s Mask Slips
23Chapter 21 - The Moment I Let The Lie Win
24Chapter 22 - The Grand Gesture He Pays For With Blood
25Chapter 23 - The Reckoning I Should Have Trusted Sooner
26Chapter 24 - The Hospital Where Walls Crumble
27Chapter 25 - The Words We Owe Each Other
28Chapter 26 - The Day The Town Finally Speaks
29Chapter 27 - The River That Holds Our Future
30About the Author
31The End
32About the Author
33Also by Nora Keating
34Acknowledgements
35A Note from the Author
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