Length8h 26m
About this audiobook
Her sister wanted her to buy time from a man who breaks fingers for a living. Then the line went dead.
Gino pulls a folded paper from his jacket and holds it up like a priest offering communion. *Borrower: Elena Marchetti.* Seventy-two thousand. Due yesterday.
The name behind the paper is one Sophia grew up hearing whispered in her uncle's deli: Dante Corvino, the young head of the Corvino Syndicate. She has never seen his face and never wanted to.
By the time she is standing in his office, he has already read her books. He tells her that her operating margin is seven percent and she is paying too much for shipping. He knows the Degas lithograph on her gallery wall is *Dancers in Blue* and exactly what she would lose on auction house fees if she sold it. He does not want her money.
*"I need a wife."*
There is a bank. Merchants Trust has a family-values clause and a board that will not partner with a bachelor whose associates have been described as unsavory enterprises. So he needs a respectable woman with no criminal record, no family ties to any organization, and an established presence in Port Liberty's cultural sector. In name only. Eighteen months. A quiet divorce at the end, her sister's debt cleared, her gallery kept, and a hundred thousand dollars on the way out.
What Sophia does not agree to is the rest of it.
A ledger she takes back with her own hands from the uncle who once smiled and called a loan family helping family, its pages filled with entries and names. An underboss named Marco, standing at the harbor window telling Dante she is a liability, then calling her sister-in-law to her face when he catches her somewhere she should not be. A warehouse, a gunshot, and Sophia kneeling on the floorboards of a moving car with both hands clamped over Dante's thigh, ordering him to open his eyes.
And a man who has to decide whether the thing he built is worth more than the thing he is becoming.
It ends with a case file officially closed, a syndicate turned into a foundation, a warehouse full of paper lanterns, and a man working out how to tell his mother he is getting married.
A closed-door mafia romance of inherited debt, a marriage signed as a business term, and a woman who never once offers to sell her gallery.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Mystery and Thriller
Length8 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 - Seventy‑Two Thousand Reasons
2Chapter 2 - The Kingpin’s Price
3Chapter 3 - The Ceremony of Fear
4Chapter 4 - The Book of Debts
5Chapter 5 - The Weight of a Locket
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6Chapter 6 - The Banker’s Doll
7Chapter 7 - The Gallery of Lies
8Chapter 8 - The Cornered Fox
9Chapter 9 - The Long Night
10Chapter 10 - The Unfinished Sentence
11Chapter 11 - Cufflinks and Loyalties
12Chapter 12 - The Showdown Under the Ferris Wheel
13Chapter 13 - The Aftermath Agreement
14Chapter 14 - The Dead Letter
15Chapter 15 - The Bone in the Fish
16Chapter 16 - The Trade at Snowblind
17Chapter 17 - The Surgeon’s Hands
18Chapter 18 - The Caged Queen
19Chapter 19 - The Trust Fall
20Chapter 20 - The Kiss That Wasn’t a Deal
21Chapter 21 - The Double Edge
22Chapter 22 - The Last Laugh
23Chapter 23 - The Ripple of a Promise
24Chapter 24 - The Porcelain Trap
25Chapter 25 - The Vigil on the River
26Chapter 26 - The Gallery of New Beginnings
27Chapter 27 - The Rooftop Peace
28Chapter 28 - The Loop That Closes
29Chapter 29 - The Foundation of Trust
30The End
31About the Author
32Also by Nadia Vance
33Acknowledgements
34A Note from the Author
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