Length9h 12m
About this audiobook
A woman is dragged up the steps of a house she was turned away from at sixteen, and the man who owns it has no idea yet that keeping her is going to cost him everything he inherited.
*Get her inside before someone calls the cops.*
Rosa Catalano does not see who says it. She is too busy keeping her footing on a rain-slicked driveway with a hand clamped around her bicep like a vice. Another man, thicker and shorter, breathing through his mouth, shoves her forward. Her knees buckle on the marble step and she tastes copper where she bit her cheek.
The house looms above her, dark windows and wet stone. She saw it once from the street, years ago, when she was sixteen and stupid enough to think her father might want her at a family dinner. He did not. The guard on the gate told her to leave before he called the police himself.
Different guard tonight. Different circumstances.
The basement stairs are narrow and the light is dim. She counts twelve steps down, because counting stops her thinking about what comes next. The room at the bottom smells of bleach and old carpet and the sour tang of somebody else's fear.
What follows: a key nobody wanted, a ghost at the table, a garden two people inherit rather than plant, a bomber's signature, an exchange neither family can afford, the price of silence, a wound that ties them together, and a dinner that never happens.
*Don't make promises we can't keep yet. Just be here. Now.*
He thinks about her in the car, in the garden, in the thirty seconds before every meeting he is supposed to be chairing. He thinks about her while a man is still missing and a leak is still feeding information to exactly the wrong people. He is not going to stop, and he has given up expecting to. Not next year. Not when it is over. Not ever.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Mystery and Thriller
Length9 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Prologue
3Chapter 1 - The Key I Never Wanted
4Chapter 2 - The Ghost at the Table
5Chapter 3 - The Garden We Inherit
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6Chapter 4 - The Bomber’s Signature
7Chapter 5 - The Exchange We Can’t Afford
8Chapter 6 - The Price of Silence
9Chapter 7 - The Wound That Binds
10Chapter 8 - The Dinner We Never Had
11Chapter 9 - The Yacht of Broken Vows
12Chapter 10 - The Wire That Cuts
13Chapter 11 - The Rescue That Costs
14Chapter 12 - The Forgotten Safe
15Chapter 13 - The Bear That Spoke
16Chapter 14 - The Belly of the Beast
17Chapter 15 - The Unseen Handshake
18Chapter 16 - The Page of Power
19Chapter 17 - The Son’s Return
20Chapter 18 - The Blood That Ties
21Chapter 19 - The Cabin in the Pines
22Chapter 20 - The Siege of Secrets
23Chapter 21 - The Cost of the Truth
24Chapter 22 - The Empty Bed
25Chapter 23 - The Letter She Forgot
26Chapter 24 - The Release of Chains
27Chapter 25 - The Snake in the Garden
28Chapter 26 - The Child’s Game
29Chapter 27 - The Black Moment
30Chapter 28 - The Return of Faith
31Chapter 29 - The Confessional of Scars
32Chapter 30 - The Reckoning of a Don
33Chapter 31 - The Peace We Build
34Epilogue
35The End
36About the Author
37Also by Raven Sinclair
38Acknowledgements
39A Note from the Author
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