The Magnate's Obsession
A Cinderella Story Billionaire RomanceBy Vivienne Ashcroft
Length8h 59m
About this audiobook
The ferry terminal smells like diesel exhaust and salt and somebody's abandoned cigarette.
Genna Langford stands at the rail with a duffel at her feet, watching the skyline come up out of a gray smudge into glass and steel. She frames a photograph and sends it to her sister with a caption. *Almost there. How's today?*
Seattle has had fifteen years to change since she left it for Portland with a journalism degree.
Margot's heart is failing. The insurance will not cover the full cost of a transplant, the waiting list runs eighteen months, and the most recent message from her doctor's office arrives with a red alert on the subject line and a number in it that Genna cannot negotiate with.
So she takes a contract from a man her oldest friend begs her to refuse.
Derek Whittaker sits in the back corner of a bar on the water with a highball glass and a pen he is not writing with, and he does not bother to introduce himself. He has spent thirty years dismantling competitors. He wants the truth about the night the Aurora went down off Marrowstone Point, and he wants it in a form that finishes Calder Industries. Two hundred thousand dollars. Half if she fails. A check for twenty-five thousand slides across the table before she has agreed to anything.
What Genna knows going in is that three thousand people work for Calder.
What she does not know is what Nathaniel Calder pulled out of the water at seven in the morning on the worst day of his life: a single sheet of paper, charred at the edges, wedged on a sheared bolt between two pilings, with one word on it in block marker. He has kept it in a desk drawer folded inside a book he never reads, and he has told nobody, and he has spent fifteen years and a great deal of money trying to clear his father's name.
Thirty-two people were on that ship. One of them had a compass rose tattooed on his forearm and had been Nathaniel's best man at a wedding that never happened.
A contemporary billionaire romance set on the Seattle waterfront: a sinking nobody investigated properly, a sister on a transplant list, a man paying for both sides, and a woman who has to decide which truth she can afford. The romance is closed-door.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 59 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Prologue
3Chapter 1 - The Love I Can’t Heal
4Chapter 2 - The Devil’s Briefcase
5Chapter 3 - Shipwreck in Black Tie
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6Chapter 4 - The Logbook We All Need
7Chapter 5 - The Doctor’s Ultimatum
8Chapter 6 - The Man Who Can Afford Secrets
9Chapter 7 - Dinner, a Fire, and a Scar
10Chapter 8 - Island of Lies
11Chapter 9 - The Cost of Trust
12Chapter 10 - The Lioness in the Corner Office
13Chapter 11 - The Trap I Walked Into
14Chapter 12 - The Scent of Her Shampoo
15Chapter 13 - What I’ll Sacrifice to Have You
16Chapter 14 - The Days After Bombshells
17Chapter 15 - The Lab of Unforeseen Truths
18Chapter 16 - The Race Against 72 Hours
19Chapter 17 - Breaking into My Own Heart’s Home
20Chapter 18 - The Surgery That Saved More Than One
21Chapter 19 - What the Surgeon Left Unsaid
22Chapter 20 - The Reckoning in the Boardroom
23Chapter 21 - The Days of a Quiet Aftermath
24Chapter 22 - The Apology I Never Expected
25Chapter 23 - The Lie I Told Myself to Stay Safe
26Chapter 24 - The Grand Gesture That Cost a Company
27Chapter 25 - The Beginning of the Rest of Our Lives
28Chapter 26 - The Harbor We Built Together
29Epilogue
30About the Author
31The End
32About the Author
33Also by Vivienne Ashcroft
34Acknowledgements
35A Note from the Author
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