The Enemy's Sin
A Single Dad, Marriage of Convenience RomantasyBy Robin Vale
Length7h 1m
About this audiobook
A fisherman carrying a debt he cannot swim out from under takes on a second pair of hands he did not ask for, and the man attached to them has come a long way without giving his real reason.
Salt and rust. The smell never leaves the nets, no matter how many times Liam Gallagher rinses them or how long they hang in the wind off the harbour.
He kneels on the splintered dock with the tangle spread across his thighs, old manila snarled through hemp like a sea serpent's bones, and works a marlinspike into the first knot. His fingers know the shapes blind. Two over, one under, pull.
The scar across his left palm catches the rope-end and he does not flinch. He has not flinched in eight years, since a hook tore through him on a December morning cold enough to freeze tears on a man's face. His father wrapped the hand in a strip of his own shirt and said *you'll be fine, boy, the sea only takes what you let it.*
Two over, one under. The knot gives.
*You talking to yourself again?*
Nat Ward turns up the next week with a careful small smile that does not reach his eyes and a line about the man at the general store being very helpful.
*He said you know the waters better than anyone on the coast.*
*He said that?*
*He also said you're carrying something.*
What follows: a man who does not belong here, a timber dealer's price, a net he cannot untangle, a bowl of chowder and a question, the reason a man leaves his own name behind, and a knot that binds rather than holds.
*You lied to her. You lied to yourself. And now you're going to marry Clara Davenport.*
The cost is exact and it is not shared. Liam loses the harbour's good opinion, which is the only currency his family has left. Nat loses the new name he built at considerable expense, and he hands it over in daylight, in front of people, because there is no quiet version of this.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length7 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
2Chapter 1 - The Debt I Can’t Outswim
3Chapter 2 - The Man Who Didn’t Belong
4Chapter 3 - A Second Pair of Hands
5Chapter 4 - The Timber Dealer’s Price
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6Chapter 5 - The Net I Can’t Untangle
7Chapter 6 - A Bowl of Chowder and a Story
8Chapter 7 - Why I Left My Name Behind
9Chapter 8 - The Knot That Binds
10Chapter 9 - The First Fight I Pick
11Chapter 10 - My Mother’s Request
12Chapter 11 - The Dance That Almost Broke Me
13Chapter 12 - I Choose You (I Think)
14Chapter 13 - The Love Note I Never Should Have Written
15Chapter 14 - My Mother’s Ultimatum
16Chapter 15 - The Blackmail Letter
17Chapter 16 - The Page That Went Missing
18Chapter 17 - The Lie I Told My Mother
19Chapter 18 - The Argument That Unravels Everything
20Chapter 19 - The Offer I Should Have Refused
21Chapter 20 - The Black Moment: I Let Him Go
22Chapter 21 - The Day Without Him
23Chapter 22 - The Cost of Letting Go
24Chapter 23 - The Grand Gesture: A Reckoning in Bar Harbor
25Chapter 24 - The New Haul
26Epilogue
27The End
28About the Author
29Also by Robin Vale
30Acknowledgements
31A Note from the Author
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