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The Financier's Secret
A Ruthless CEO, Hidden Heir Billionaire RomanceBy Vivienne Ashcroft
Length8h 36m
About this audiobook
Six months of watching a story she was never assigned, and a printout still warm from the machine that is going to cost her the only job she has ever been good at.
A single sheet of paper. She holds it up and lets the ink dry under the fluorescent hum of the newsroom. The photograph beneath the headline catches the light: a silver crew cut caught by a flash, scarred knuckles wrapped around a crystal tumbler.
*Empire Builder or Empire Breaker?*
Not her beat. She covers lifestyle features. Five perfect brunch spots. The rise of artisan pickling. How to throw a dinner party that does not suck. Not fallen media empires and their grizzled patriarchs.
But she has been watching this one for six months, ever since she stood in a hotel ballroom clutching a press badge and a glass of sparkling water while Arthur Sterling accepted a lifetime achievement award she had been sent to cover for the Sunday section.
Declan is the son who left, the one nobody in the family will discuss on the record, and the only person in the city who can confirm what she already suspects.
What follows: a story she cannot walk away from, a door she swore she would never open, a little girl who asks the question everybody else has avoided, a promise she means to keep, a search she cannot delegate, a gala she almost skips, a truth she never tells him, and a cellar that changes the shape of everything.
*Not when Declan had kissed me and I'd kissed him back.*
Her thumb hovers over the delete button. Then she closes the laptop instead.
Perfect for readers who love a lifestyle journalist out of her depth and entirely correct anyway, a closed-off financier with a family nobody survives intact, a hidden heir handled with care rather than melodrama, a slow burn built out of interviews and late-night phone calls, real professional consequences, explicit scenes, and an ending earned rather than granted.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 - The Story I Couldn’t Walk Away From
2Chapter 2 - The Door I Swore I’d Never Open
3Chapter 3 - The Little Girl Who Asked Too Many Questions
4Chapter 4 - The Promise I Meant to Keep
5Chapter 5 - The Search I Couldn’t Deny
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6Chapter 6 - The Gala I Almost Skipped
7Chapter 7 - The Truth I Never Told Her
8Chapter 8 - The Cellar That Changed Everything
9Chapter 9 - The Picnic She Didn’t Expected
10Chapter 10 - The Article I Burned
11Chapter 11 - The Argument That Let Us Grow
12Chapter 12 - The Wish I Almost Lost
13Chapter 13 - The Moment I Stopped Running
14Chapter 14 - The Secret that Escaped
15Chapter 15 - The Lie I Believed About Her
16Chapter 16 - The Phone I Refused to Answer
17Chapter 17 - The Father I Couldn’t Escape
18Chapter 18 - The Trap I Walked Into
19Chapter 19 - The Door That Stayed Closed
20Chapter 20 - The Girl Who Ran Away
21Chapter 21 - The Search That Brought Us Back
22Chapter 22 - The Stand I Took With Him
23Chapter 23 - The Trust That Cost Everything
24Chapter 24 - The Press Conference That Changed Everything
25Chapter 25 - The Story I Finally Stopped Chasing
26Chapter 26 - The Beginning We Earned
27Epilogue
28About the Author
29The End
30About the Author
31Also by Vivienne Ashcroft
32Acknowledgements
33A Note from the Author
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