The Enemy's Mistake
A Workplace Tension, Grumpy-Sunshine Pairing Mafia RomanceBy Nadia Vance
Length7h 22m
About this audiobook
Salt and rot and the wet slap of fish against wood: that is morning in St. Ives, and Eddie Trevelyan has it ground into his clothes, his hair, and the creases of his palms where rope burn healed white.
Fifty-three pounds of crab and crawfish on the fishmonger's slab. A decent haul for a man working alone. Bartle Jenkyn offers twelve shillings and will not move, and Eddie counts the hours it would take to sail west and takes the twelve.
There is a bank notice tacked to the door of his cottage. Fourteen pounds by Michaelmas, or the place is gone.
Thomas Penrose picks that morning to shout across the market that one of Eddie's pots was sitting inside Ashworth water at dawn, right on the boundary line. Penrose has been circling the co-op committee for months, offering to take on the debt and consolidate the permits and run things his way. The Molly Mavis has been part of that co-op for forty years, and Eddie's father helped found it.
So Eddie goes up to Ashworth House to answer for a lobster pot, and the man who opens the door is the son.
Julian Ashworth offers him two shillings a day rebuilding a dry-stone boundary wall. He works beside him with his jacket on a branch and his sleeves rolled. He has been sent to complete a boundary survey, and his father keeps wiring from London to ask when it will be done, and Julian does not particularly care what his father wants to hear.
*"Because the cove belongs to the village. It always has. My grandfather stole it, my father held it, and I'm giving it back."*
Sir Frederick Ashworth owns the harbour, the ice house, the net-mending shed and half the cottages on the hill. He knows exactly how much the Trevelyans owe and how long they have. He also knows about Eddie's sister, and says out loud what he will do to her dressmaking, and to the boat, and to the cottage, if his son does not come to heel.
Rosalind Trevelyan is keeping her own secret at the kitchen table with a needle in her hand, and it is not the one Eddie thinks it is.
A historical romance between two men on a Cornish fishing harbour, told in Eddie's chapters and Julian's: a rigged card game a generation back, a wall that has to be rebuilt stone by stone, a village that keeps its accounts in grudges, and a boat that goes out under two names on the papers. The romance is closed-door.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length7 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Prologue
3Chapter 1 - The Catch I Didn’t Want
4Chapter 2 - The Debt That Won’t Die
5Chapter 3 - A Sister’s Secret
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6Chapter 4 - The Price of Gleaning
7Chapter 5 - The Dance of Omission
8Chapter 6 - The Leaking Heart
9Chapter 7 - The Confession Beneath the Rain
10Chapter 8 - The First Tear in the Veil
11Chapter 9 - The Rescue We Didn’t Plan
12Chapter 10 - The Sweetest Poison
13Chapter 11 - The Betrayal of a Letter
14Chapter 12 - The Promise at the Quay
15Chapter 13 - The Wrecking Tide
16Chapter 14 - The Ultimatum
17Chapter 15 - The Rumor Spreads
18Chapter 16 - The Split
19Chapter 17 - The Wine of Regret
20Chapter 18 - The Final Lie
21Chapter 19 - The Lowest Ebb
22Chapter 20 - The Price of Truth
23Chapter 21 - The Gathering Storm
24Chapter 22 - The Reckoning
25Chapter 23 - The Grand Gesture That Cost Everything
26Chapter 24 - The Shore We Reach
27The End
28About the Author
29Also by Nadia Vance
30Acknowledgements
31A Note from the Author
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