The Rival's Bargain
A Revenge, Why-Choose Bond Contemporary RomanceBy Emmy Sutton
Length7h 51m
About this audiobook
The road into Tremayne is one car wide now, hedgerows pressing in, brambles scratching paint Rowan Penrose paid good money for. Surgeon's hands, steady through eight-hour operations, shake on the wheel of a drive he has not made in twenty-three years.
His cousin Morwenna is waiting at the gate with a clipboard and a fox-thin smile. Behind her, in the gravel turnaround where his grandfather used to park the Bentley, stand forty villagers with hand-painted signs. OUR LAND. HANDS OFF. TREMAYNE IS NOT FOR SALE.
At the front, not shouting, is a thickset man in a faded blue jumper with a silver chain at his throat.
*That's what Penroses do. Take what they want, leave the mess, and never look back.*
Jago Trevithick fishes out of the harbour below the estate. He argues that the sale would take the village's fishing rights with it, and he has the receipt: a compact signed in 1742, copied out of the parish archives, folded and unfolded so many times the creases have gone soft. Rowan came to sell a house to a buyer called Maddock Hendrix and be gone inside a week.
Then a pier gives way under him and he comes up holding a child.
Elowen is Jago's niece, copper-braided and relentless, and she needs a tutor for a local history project. Jago is a widower. His husband Llew was a paramedic. Every Sunday he still writes letters to him at the kitchen table and burns them afterwards.
What the two men slowly uncover is uglier than a land dispute. Rowan's father kept a photograph of Jago's father behind crime scene tape in a locked room at the top of the house. Jago's father was writing to Llew about something he had found there. Somebody did not want it found.
And while they are working that out, a letter appears that Jago never wrote, and Elowen's mother drives down from London to take her daughter back.
A Cornish enemies-to-lovers romance between two men who each believe the other is the problem - closed-door, with a grieving widower, a niece worth fighting for, a village that has been holding the line for generations, and a house that has to be opened rather than sold.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length7 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Estate That Doesn’t Want Me
3Chapter 2 - The Fisherman’s Argument
4Chapter 3 - The Lift You Don’t Want
5Chapter 4 - The Pier That Gives Way
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6Chapter 5 - The Net That Binds
7Chapter 6 - The Tutor’s Bargain
8Chapter 7 - The Ghost at the Table
9Chapter 8 - The Boathouse Confession
10Chapter 9 - The Morning After the Storm
11Chapter 10 - The Lantern Lesson
12Chapter 11 - The Forgotten Reef
13Chapter 12 - The Offer You Refuse
14Chapter 13 - The Slow Agreement
15Chapter 14 - The Secret Letters
16Chapter 15 - The Mother Arrives
17Chapter 16 - The Letter That Lies
18Chapter 17 - The Custody Bomb
19Chapter 18 - The Recording Trap
20Chapter 19 - The Breaking Point
21Chapter 20 - The London Fog
22Chapter 21 - The Runaway
23Chapter 22 - The Truth in the Ashes
24Chapter 23 - The Sardine Supper Reckoning
25Chapter 24 - The Preservation Trust
26Chapter 25 - The Lantern We Launch Together
27Epilogue
28The End
29About the Author
30Also by Emmy Sutton
31Acknowledgements
32A Note from the Author
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