The Enemy's Secret
A Hidden Heir, Marriage of Convenience Sports RomanceBy Quinn Mercer
Length6h 49m
About this audiobook
Three hundred and forty-two dollars after expenses. That is one good night, and it buys about a week before the next set of demands arrives.
*And if I see you skimming again, Mickey, I'll break your other thumb.*
Mickey laughs, wipes a glass with a rag that has seen better days, and sets it on the polished bar.
*You got no proof, boss.*
*I got a nose for theft. And I got Lucia's eyes. She saw you pocket that quarter from Mrs. Rosenstein's tab.*
*That was a tip.*
*Quarter's a quarter. You want tips, you charm the customers. You don't lift from my regulars.*
Rafe Castellano slides the bills into a leather satchel beneath the counter and counts under his breath. The place is full tonight, thirty-eight bodies packed into a former laundry basement, off-duty dockworkers nursing gin at the far end, a piano doing what it can.
Across town, in a narrow room where typewriters clatter like machine guns, Julian Ashford sits at the third desk from the window, the one with the loose bolt that makes his chair list two degrees left, staring at a blank form he has no intention of filling in honestly.
What follows: a name he did not ask for, a face in an alley, a saint's judgment, a saint's bargain, a pact made in a coal cellar, a diary and a dagger, a sister's test, and medicine handed over alongside a lie.
*I'm a fed. I was sent to arrest you.*
*I know.*
*I lied to you. About everything. My name, my reasons, my—*
He held him in a cold safehouse and kissed him like he was the only thing worth saving.
The file still exists. The testimony still exists. Somebody still has to sign something, and the signature is going to come from one of these two men. And even then, in a city that has already decided what both of them are, forgiveness is not promised to anybody.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length6 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 - The Name I Didn’t Ask For
2Chapter 2 - The Face in the Alley
3Chapter 3 - The Saint’s Judgment
4Chapter 4 - The Saint’s Bargain
5Chapter 5 - The Coal Cellar Pact
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6Chapter 6 - The Diary and the Dagger
7Chapter 7 - The Sister’s Test
8Chapter 8 - The Medicine and the Lie
9Chapter 9 - The Smuggler’s Run
10Chapter 10 - The Confession in the Rain
11Chapter 11 - The Map and the Body
12Chapter 12 - The Cellar of Lies
13Chapter 13 - The Rescue and the Reckoning
14Chapter 14 - The Taste of Freedom
15Chapter 15 - The Empty Bed
16Chapter 16 - The Wound That Won’t Close
17Chapter 17 - The Grave of Promises
18Chapter 18 - The Hunted Three
19Chapter 19 - The Anarchist’s Choice
20Chapter 20 - The Badge That Burns
21Chapter 21 - The Last Lie
22Chapter 22 - The Reckoning with the Mirror
23Chapter 23 - The Door I Opened
24The End
25About the Author
26Also by Quinn Mercer
27Acknowledgements
28A Note from the Author
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