The Cold Promise
A Dark Bully Captive ThrillerBy Adrian Kessler
Length11h 8m
About this audiobook
Isla Birch found a second ledger in a routine audit. Twelve hours later, her apartment had been searched, and by morning her supervisor was dead.
She runs to the only person she knows who does this for a living: a former professor who has been hiding people just like her for a decade. The basement is already occupied. The man in the next bed is Benet Kessler, disowned son of the family Isla is auditing, and he tells her on the first night that her audit killed her supervisor.
He's right.
Three months in a basement with a locked door and a man who hates her. One ledger they're building page by page. One set of men getting closer every week.
A dark bully captive thriller about two people who can only leave the room if they walk out together.
Contains on-page violence and confinement.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Mystery and Thriller
Length11 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Note to Readers
10Eight
2Prologue
11Nine
3One
12Ten
4Two
13Eleven
5Three
14Twelve
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6Four
15Thirteen
7Five
16Epilogue
8Six
17About the author
9Seven
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