Length2h 2m
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THE DEBT
A Novel by Arthur Payne
She inherited a debt she never signed for. He collected in a currency she never expected: her.
Elena Voss buries her father on a Tuesday. By Thursday, she's staring down a number that will end everything she has left. Eleven million dollars. A shipping empire built over thirty years, reduced to a folder of red ink and a room full of men too afraid to say the word bankruptcy out loud.
Then Damon Kade walks in and offers her a different kind of ruin.
Marry me. One year. The debt disappears.
No ceremony. No warmth. Just a transaction laid flat on the table by a man who has never once lost a negotiation and doesn't intend to start with her. Elena has exactly one night to decide whether marrying a stranger is a rescue or the first move in a much longer game.
She says yes. She has no idea what she's actually signed.
Because Damon Kade isn't just cold, he's guarded, in the particular way of a man protecting something far older and far more dangerous than a business deal. A locked drawer. A hidden photograph. A decade-old scandal that made him a villain in every boardroom in the city, and a story he's never told anyone the truth of, until Elena starts asking the wrong questions and refusing to accept the easy answers.
What she uncovers isn't just her husband's secret. It's a conspiracy that reaches back further than either of their families, a patient, decades-long architecture of cruelty hiding behind a trusted face, closing in on both of them at once. And the closer Elena gets to the truth, the more she realizes the real danger was never the man she married for money.
It's the one who's been managing them both from the shadows all along.
THE DEBT is a slow-burn, marriage-of-convenience romance about two people who build a life on a lie and have to decide with everything and everyone around them unraveling, whether they can survive telling each other the truth. Told in alternating Elena/Damon points of view, it's for readers who want their billionaire romance with teeth: real stakes, real danger, and a hard-won happily-ever-after that has to be earned, not assumed.
If you loved the ruthless-man-meets-his-match tension of your favorite marriage-bargain romance, and want a thriller-edged conspiracy tangled into the slow burn, Elena and Damon's story is your next obsession.
Audiobook details
GenreSelf-Help, Romance
Length2 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter One: Elena
11Chapter Eleven: Damon
2Chapter Two: Damon
12Chapter Twelve: Elena
3Chapter Three: Elena
13Chapter Thirteen: Damon
4Chapter Four: Elena
14Chapter Fourteen: Elena
5Chapter Five: Damon
15Chapter Fifteen: Damon
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6Chapter Six: Elena
16Chapter Sixteen: Elena
7Chapter Seven: Damon
17Chapter Seventeen: Damon
8Chapter Eight: Elena
18Chapter Eighteen: Elena
9Chapter Nine: Damon
19Epilogue: Damon
10Chapter Ten: Elena
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THE CROWN OF SPLINTERED VOWSArthur Payne2h 55m$6.50 · $0.00
THE SEAL BREAKERArthur Payne3h 3m$6.50 · $0.00
THE QUIET HOUSEArthur Payne5h 17m$6.50 · $0.00
RARE AIRArthur Payne4h$6.50 · $0.00
SHADOW OF THE NORTHERN PACKArthur Payne3h 56m$8.50 · $0.00
CLAIMED BY THE DONArthur Payne4h 34m$8.50 · $0.00
ALEX ALBONArthur Payne1h 59m4.1 (28)$6.50 · $0.00
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THE WEIGHT OF ASHArthur Payne4h 11m4.9 (228)$6.50 · $0.00
GABOR MATÉArthur Payne1h 53m$7.50 · $0.00
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