Length8h
About this audiobook
*You're punching that dough like it owes you money.*
*It does. About forty thousand dollars' worth.*
Nadia Castillo folds the sourdough over itself and turns the bowl, the motion automatic after twenty-three years of mornings that start before the streetlights switch off. The bank wants three years of profit growth and evidence of expansion potential. She has had three years of flatlined margins.
Her friend Maya Torres has a source in the planning department, and she has worked out what all the activity in the Latin Quarter means. Kincaid Holdings has been assembling a block-wide acquisition for eighteen months, quietly, through shell companies and third-party brokers. A forty-story hotel, with mixed-use retail on the ground floor and condos on top.
The bakery is in the way.
At half past five the back door creaks open, and a man in a navy suit that costs more than her monthly rent is standing in her kitchen. Nadia's hand closes around the nearest weapon, which is a baguette, still warm from the oven. He has already posted the letter. He prefers to deliver bad news in person.
Then he says the thing she is not expecting. *They were partners. In a business. Before your father took it for himself.*
When she asks her father about it, his hand jerks and coffee spreads across the table. *I knew this day would come. I just hoped I'd be dead before it arrived.*
They have thirty days. Her cousin Marco has his own copy of the eviction notice and his own reasons for wanting the money. And the loan comes back denied, because of a development freeze that appeared from nowhere.
On the bakery wall, among the grand-opening photos and the yellowed clippings, hangs a picture of two young men holding a brass trophy shaped like a wheat sheaf between them, and what actually happened between those two men is not the version either of their children grew up with.
A billionaire romance about a bakery with forty-three years of unbroken starter on the shelf, an inherited debt that turns out to run the other way, and a red ribbon that eventually gets cut; closed-door.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 - The Letter I Should Have Burned
2Chapter 2 - The Taste of Flour and Fury
3Chapter 3 - The Burned Loaf
4Chapter 4 - The Trap in the Fine Print
5Chapter 5 - The First Tasting
Show all chaptersShow less
6Chapter 6 - The Ledger That Wasn’t There
7Chapter 7 - The Image of a Man
8Chapter 8 - The Hole in His Story
9Chapter 9 - The Taste of Someone’s Past
10Chapter 10 - The Line in the Flour
11Chapter 11 - The Letter That Could Save or Destroy
12Chapter 12 - The Cost of Winning
13Chapter 13 - The Dirt Beneath the Stones
14Chapter 14 - The Second Taste
15Chapter 15 - The Betrayal That Wasn’t
16Chapter 16 - The Third Tasting (And the First Lie)
17Chapter 17 - The Cost of Omission
18Chapter 18 - The Fourth Tasting (An Apology Kneaded Into Dough)
19Chapter 19 - The Black Hour
20Chapter 20 - The Trust in the Flour
21Chapter 21 - The Festival of Forgiveness
22Chapter 22 - The Mother He Never Knew
23Chapter 23 - The Reunion and the Going
24Chapter 24 - The Bread We Knew All Along
25About the Author
26The End
27About the Author
28Also by Paige Sinclair
29Acknowledgements
30A Note from the Author
Series
More from Paige Sinclair
The Tycoon's UltimatumPaige Sinclair8h 2m$5
The Roommate's MistakePaige Sinclair7h 2m$5
The Tycoon's Fake FianceePaige Sinclair7h 29m$5
The Tycoon's SecretPaige Sinclair8h 28m$5
The Tycoon's VowPaige Sinclair9h 2m$5
The Heir's EnemyPaige Sinclair8h 12m$5
The Heir's SinPaige Sinclair8h 35m$5
The Heir's ConfessionPaige Sinclair7h 13m$5
Her Duty Bound DefenderSharee Stover6h 30m4.6 (558)$12 · $0.00
Defending from DangerJodie Bailey5h 46m4.6 (588)$24 · $0.00
White HotIlona Andrews13h 18m4.5 (136.9K)$5 · $0.00
Explosive RevengeMaggie K. Black6h 18m4.6 (545)$12 · $0.00
Her Brand of JusticeB.J. Daniels6h 48m4.6 (1.3K)$12 · $0.00
Search And DetectTerri Reed5h 51m4.6 (706)$24 · $0.00
Driving ForceElle James4h 58m4.6 (407)$20 · $0.00
Danger in the WildernessDarlene L. Turner6h 54m4.7 (299)$12 · $0.00
Yukon JusticeDana Mentink6h 15m4.6 (751)$12 · $0.00
The Rogue WarriorCindy Roland Anderson5h 44m4.6 (409)$17 · $0.00
Trail Of ThreatsJessica R. Patch5h 47m4.6 (425)$24 · $0.00
Ironwood, a Fae Universe SeriesAlessa Thorn26h 57m4.6 (835)$30 · $0.00
Ready to ProtectValerie Hansen5h 38m4.6 (981)$24 · $0.00
Searching For EvidenceCarol J. Post6h 21m4.6 (552)$24 · $0.00
New Beginnings at Lullbury BayGeorgia Hill6h 59m4.6 (422)$13 · $0.00
Hiding in MontanaLaura Scott6h 18m4.6 (1K)$12 · $0.00
Christmas K-9 Unit HeroesLenora Worth, Katy Lee5h 51m4.6 (507)$24 · $0.00
Three ComradesErich Maria Remarque15h 50m4.5 (47.3K)$2 · $0.00
Craft BrewLayla Reyne7h 50m4.5 (986)$26 · $0.00
THE BLUE CASTLE (Unabridged) (Annotated)Lucy Maud Montgomery9h 18m4.5 (61.8K)$2 · $0.00
You may also like
House ReckoningMike Lawson7h 58m4.3 (1.6K)$20
Carl Weber’s Kingpins: Los AngelesC. N. Phillips5h 48m4.4 (535)$20
Drop Dead, GorgeousJ. D. Mason8h 2m4.3 (402)$20
The Kill ClauseGregg Hurwitz6h 9m3.9 (9.6K)$24 · $0.00
The CartelAshley & JaQuavis9h 8m4.5 (15.1K)$20
The Return of Kid CooperBrad Smith10h 5m4.1 (130.4K)$20
Animal 4.5K’wan6h 35m4.4 (601)$17
The OpportunistElyse Friedman7h 33m3.8 (3.9K)$26 · $0.00
The SecretaryRenée Knight8h 23m3.6 (8.4K)$26 · $0.00
Past EchoesGraham Smith6h 52m4.1 (1.3K)$13.90 · $0.00
Cousin BettyHonoré de Balzac17h 21m4.0 (12.6K)$2.30
The Last DonMario Puzo18h 53m3.8 (20.4K)$32
Animal 3K’wan6h 33m4.6 (2.8K)$20
BluffJane Stanton Hitchcock7h 37m4.0 (2.1K)$20
A Killer WeddingJoan O'Leary12h 30m3.6 (6K)$29 · $0.00
What Remains of MeAlison Gaylin12h 54m3.9 (6.5K)$33 · $0.00
The Glass CellPatricia Highsmith8h 1m3.9 (4.5K)$20
House RivalsMike Lawson7h 56m4.3 (2.2K)$20
Her Many FacesNicci Cloke8h 45m3.8 (2.7K)$26 · $0.00
The JurySteve Martini8h 33m3.9 (5.4K)$26 · $0.00