The Magnate's Secret
A Revenge, Billionaire's Bargain Billionaire RomanceBy Vivienne Ashcroft
Length8h 3m
About this audiobook
Maya Chen arrives thirteen minutes early to the Sterling Holdings boardroom and spends them hiding a second recorder in a fake ficus the cleaning crew has been missing for weeks.
She checked the state's wiretap statutes three times before leaving her apartment. *One-party consent. She was the party.*
Her sister Sarah ran a community kitchen, an after-school program and an emergency food pantry that served three hundred families a month, until the rent tripled, until the loan taken out to cover it was sold and resold, until a shell company tracing back to a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands called it in. Every thread Maya has followed over six months ends at Sterling Holdings.
Nate Sterling is the interim CEO, eight months into a job he inherited with his father's death. He will not release the quarterly reports. He says the company is not hiding, it is grieving, and that he is still finding files in his father's office that nobody knew existed.
Then his head of acquisitions shoves through the door and makes a remark about Maya's father, and while Nate is distracted Maya sees what he has been writing on the notepad by his hand.
*7K-LM-422.*
She knows that code. She watched it go into her father's ledgers when she was a child, and she watched what it cost him afterwards. It belongs to a disbarred accountant named David Chen, and the man who is supposed to be her enemy is copying it out in his own handwriting.
She peels the carbon copy off the back of the page on her way to the elevator.
What Maya does not know is that Nate has asked for the sealed case files from 2007, that he is trying to locate a man whose whereabouts are listed as unknown, that he has been quietly selling the family's summer house in Maine to fund something the estate will not, or what his father actually did to hers.
This is a billionaire romance about two people investigating the same fraud from opposite sides of a boardroom table, where the secret is not an affair but a conviction, and the man with the empire has the most to lose by proving it wrong. The romance is closed-door.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 - The Lie I Built My Life On
2Chapter 2 - The Door I Swore I’d Never Open
3Chapter 3 - The Dance We Couldn’t Refuse
4Chapter 4 - The Cost of a Secret
5Chapter 5 - The Father I Never Knew
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6Chapter 6 - The Letter I Can’t Unread
7Chapter 7 - The Trap We Set for Each Other
8Chapter 8 - The Lake House Oath
9Chapter 9 - The Commitment I Chose
10Chapter 10 - The Betrayal That Wasn’t
11Chapter 11 - The Confession That Broke Us
12Chapter 12 - The Fall I Never Saw Coming
13Chapter 13 - The Gesture That Cost Me Dignity
14Chapter 14 - The Truth We Found Together
15Chapter 15 - The Forgiveness I Didn’t Deserve
16Chapter 16 - The Pattern That Freed Us
17Chapter 17 - The Future I Almost Ruined
18Chapter 18 - The Final Thread
19Chapter 19 - The Answer I Gave Without Fear
20Chapter 20 - The Legacy My Father Left
21Chapter 21 - The Adventure We Began
22Chapter 22 - The Lie That Lost Its Power
23Chapter 23 - The New Beginning We Chose
24Epilogue
25About the Author
26The End
27About the Author
28Also by Vivienne Ashcroft
29Acknowledgements
30A Note from the Author
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