The Tycoon's Convenient Wife
A Hidden Heir, Forbidden Desire Billionaire RomanceBy Adrienne Cole
Length8h 9m
About this audiobook
Six days ago Nora Shaw was thinking about butter. The real stuff, from the dairy co-op that still delivers to the back door of Shaw's Bakery every Tuesday at five in the morning, for a family that has been making croissants in the same building since 1954.
Now there is a piece of paper floating in the flour bin, *the ink already smudging against the white powder in a way that made the words look like they were bleeding.* Notice of Foreclosure and Eviction. Under the flour dust, the name Vance Holdings.
Her grandmother is at the bottom of the back stairs, knuckles white on the banister. Evelyn Shaw is seventy-eight. She built the place, and she taught Nora to laminate dough at the age of six, standing on a milk crate to reach the counter.
Across town, Dominic Vance has just been handed his father's terms: manage the family's assets for six months and prove he can handle them, or the estate goes to Lucas Hart, who has been managing it for five years and has already drawn the plans. Hotels, condos, retail. One parcel is holding the whole thing up, and it is the bakery.
Then Dominic's sister Claire, who is on oxygen and thinner every month, learns what her clinical trial actually requires. The foundation behind it will not release two million dollars without *a legally recognized domestic partnership. Marriage, essentially.*
So he makes Nora an offer with nothing decorative anywhere on it. *I need a wife for one year. You need a building. That's the shape of a bargain.*
She takes it, and she is clear about what she is taking. *One year, and then I get the deed free and clear. I get your medical care.* And the oven that has been in her family since 1954.
What neither of them budgeted for is a photograph locked in a drawer, a forged permit, a replaced lock cylinder, an email that splits the world in half, and a man who learned at ten years old, from under a dining table, that *love is a lie businessmen tell women to get what they want.*
A contemporary billionaire romance about a bakery under a foreclosure notice, a twelve-month contract nobody is pretending is romantic, and two people who each signed it to keep somebody else alive. The romance is closed-door.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 9 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
2Chapter 1 - The Sack of Flour on Page One
3Chapter 2 - The Shape of a Bargain
4Chapter 3 - The One-Year Lease
5Chapter 4 - The Hard Sell
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6Chapter 5 - The Penthouse Welcome
7Chapter 6 - The First Lie in Public
8Chapter 7 - The Sugar Shell
9Chapter 8 - The Little Flame
10Chapter 9 - The Harbor Crowd
11Chapter 10 - The Crack in the Foundation
12Chapter 11 - The Photograph on the Desk
13Chapter 12 - The Antique Ring
14Chapter 13 - The Box from His Father
15Chapter 14 - The Good Opinion
16Chapter 15 - The Demolition Schedule
17Chapter 16 - The Email That Splits the World
18Chapter 17 - The Long Walk Out
19Chapter 18 - The Boiler Room Confession
20Chapter 19 - The Trust That Saves
21Chapter 20 - The Estate on the Table
22Chapter 21 - The Proposal in Ashes
23Chapter 22 - The Rival’s Last Move
24Chapter 23 - The Oven That Burns Both Ways
25Chapter 24 - The First Morning of the Rest of Their Lives
26About the Author
27The End
28About the Author
29Also by Adrienne Cole
30Acknowledgements
31A Note from the Author
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