
The Magnate's Bride
A Small-Town Secrets, Holiday Homecoming Billionaire RomanceBy Sienna WolfeLength8h 49m
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One out of four. A twenty-five percent success rate. Nadia Patel has been sleeping on the cot in the corner of her Brooklyn studio for three nights trying to salvage the commission, and the Diwali Lights Gala at the Plaza is in four hours, and she promised the event coordinator a set of six.
The phone keeps buzzing. Three missed calls from Willow Creek Memory Care: her mother was found in the hallway at three in the morning, confused, asking for Nadia's father. He has been dead six years. He left the studio when Nadia was twelve with one brown leather suitcase, the one from their honeymoon to Jaipur, and clicked the door shut behind him rather than slamming it, as though leaving your wife and daughter were something you could do politely.
The landlord's knock comes at eleven-thirty, right on schedule. Nadia asks him for twenty-four hours.
At the gala, a friend texts her: *Rohan Kapoor is here. His father owns half of Manhattan. Make eye contact.*
What Rohan eventually puts in front of her is a folder. Two years. They live together, they appear together at events and family functions. In exchange, he covers the six thousand a month her mother's care costs, he saves the studio, and he has a cheque delivered to a man named Sal Mancini by noon, because her brother Dev owes Mancini thirty-two thousand dollars and is hiding in a motel in Astoria on a prepaid phone, eighty dollars to his name from pawning their father's jacket.
There is also a clause in the folder assigning the intellectual property in everything she makes. Every design, every glaze formula, every technique she develops, for two years, all of it his.
And much later, in a box of old letters, she finds proof that the two families were tangled together long before either of them was born.
A contract-marriage billionaire romance about clay that remembers every touch, a woman who promised herself at twelve that she would never need anyone again, and the price of breaking that promise. It ends in a studio full of eight-year-olds being told that their first pot will collapse, and that this is good; closed-door.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Prologue
3Chapter 1 - The Bowl I Didn’t Break
4Chapter 2 - The Price of a Name
5Chapter 3 - The Porcelain Trap
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6Chapter 4 - The First Lie I Told My Mother
7Chapter 5 - The Invoice on His Desk
8Chapter 6 - The Ladder of Luck
9Chapter 7 - The Gilded Cage
10Chapter 8 - The Dinner We Didn’t Cancel
11Chapter 9 - The Clay and the Flaw
12Chapter 10 - The Wheel and the Wound
13Chapter 11 - The Friend Who Knows Too Much
14Chapter 12 - The Dinner Table
15Chapter 13 - The Centerpiece
16Chapter 14 - The Promise of Morning
17Chapter 15 - The Letters I Never Read
18Chapter 16 - The Debt That Keeps Giving
19Chapter 17 - The Warehouse
20Chapter 18 - The Truth I Should Have Seen
21Chapter 19 - The Paper Trail
22Chapter 20 - The Dinner We Never Finished
23Chapter 21 - The Lie Wins
24Chapter 22 - The Letter I Needed
25Chapter 23 - The Silence Before the Leap
26Chapter 24 - The Painting That Cost Everything
27Chapter 25 - The Foundation We Build
28Chapter 26 - The Pottery of Forever
29About the Author
30The End
31About the Author
32Also by Sienna Wolfe
33Acknowledgements
34A Note from the Author