Length9h 17m
About this audiobook
Natalie Shaw counts seventeen ways this can go wrong before she even steps off the bus, and she is still missing one.
The Hawke Security building rises thirty-four stories over Westport's financial district, black glass and steel ribs. The guard does not check a screen or ask for ID. He nods at the elevators. They were expecting her.
Alexander Hawke does not sit down, and he does not offer her a chair.
*I expected your sister.*
*She's not well.*
*That's why she owes me money.*
Elena borrowed sixty thousand dollars from Rico Vargas to cover a gambling habit. Vargas sold the paper to Hawke at a discount. With the interest and the fees added before the transfer, the folder on the desk reads ninety-two thousand, four hundred dollars.
Natalie offers the only thing she owns. She is a forensic accountant, and she will audit his books for nothing until the principal is cleared. At her billing rate it would take eighteen months. She is not billing, so she says twelve.
He accepts, and then tells her what happens if she runs. A phone call. A fraud charge. A sister who goes to prison and stays there.
They give her a windowless converted supply closet with a chair that lists to the left. His chief of staff warns her that the surveillance feed goes straight to Hawke's phone and that he watches it while he sleeps, then adds that the warning was not a kindness.
And a number she does not recognise sends her three words: *You're in. Trust no one.*
Nobody in the building knows why she is really there. Her father was a contract forensic accountant at Hawke Security. He was looking at certain accounts, he left her a voicemail she did not play for three months, and then he was dead.
The transfer document that moved Elena's debt is signed by a man whose faded security badge Natalie has already palmed out of a desk drawer. The badge is years old. It still works.
A dark contemporary romantic suspense in dual point of view, with a forensic audit used as a crowbar, a murdered accountant, a man who has been sitting on that murder file for three years, and an anonymous contact who only ever texts when it is too late to ask questions. The romance is closed-door.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Mystery and Thriller
Length9 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Debt I Didn’t Sign
3Chapter 2 - The Pricetag of Weakness
4Chapter 3 - The Cost of a Sister
5Chapter 4 - The Man in the Iron Mask
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6Chapter 5 - The Bullet I Chose
7Chapter 6 - The Window I Blocked
8Chapter 7 - The Cage I Dug Myself
9Chapter 8 - The Rival in My Office
10Chapter 9 - The Stranger I Trust
11Chapter 10 - The Liability I Saved
12Chapter 11 - The Question I Asked
13Chapter 12 - The Partner Inside
14Chapter 13 - The Knife in Her Apron
15Chapter 14 - The Boardroom of Traitors
16Chapter 15 - The Fallout I Can’t Fix
17Chapter 16 - The Promise That Could Hurt
18Chapter 17 - The Trap I Set in Stone
19Chapter 18 - The Man in the Marble
20Chapter 19 - The Victory That Smelled Like Blood
21Chapter 20 - The King of the Bottom
22Chapter 21 - The Cost of the Last Page
23Chapter 22 - The Bribe That Smelled Like Honey
24Chapter 23 - The Half-Truth That Breaks Us
25Chapter 24 - The Second Sister
26Chapter 25 - The Runway of No Return
27Chapter 26 - The Scar I Didn’t See
28Chapter 27 - The Key to the Kingdom
29Chapter 28 - The Dinner Table of Lies
30Chapter 29 - The Woman Who Brought the Champagne
31Chapter 30 - The Lie That Finally Broke
32Chapter 31 - The Property of Each Other
33Epilogue
34About the Author
35The End
36About the Author
37Also by Raven Sinclair
38Acknowledgements
39A Note from the Author
