Length8h 36m
About this audiobook
Jack Marlowe is a knife in the dark, a man who works for the other outfit, and the last person anybody should find standing behind them in a warehouse at two in the morning.
A single brass key, still warm from a pocket. The lock gives. The door groans inward on salt-stiff hinges, louder than anybody would like.
Inside it is cold and still, thick with damp burlap and tar. Moonlight through a grime-caked window high on the far wall, falling across a row of crates stacked three high. Canadian whiskey, if the tip was good. A hundred cases, maybe more, hijacked three nights ago and stashed here by a crew that does not share.
He is not supposed to know about it. He is not supposed to be here at all.
But Leo Vitale let it slip at a wake last week, grinning across a funeral parlour with that gold tooth showing, about a special shipment coming in on the late tide.
*Put it down.*
The voice comes from behind, low and flat, with no room in it for negotiation.
*Turn around. Slow.*
Jack stands in the shadow of a support beam ten feet away, a thin wicked blade held low at his hip, green eyes moving fast, assessing, cataloguing, and then settling.
What follows: a boss who demands a handshake, neutral ground both men claim, a beating that becomes the beginning of something, a soft-hearted thief, a rooftop confession, a goose and a feather, and a barbershop with two chairs and one conversation nobody else hears.
*Then I guess I gotta stay alive.*
Perfect for readers who love Prohibition-era MM romance, two enforcers on opposite sides of a whiskey war, a knife held low and used for something else entirely, rooftops and funeral parlours and barbershops, a slow burn that costs both men their standing, explicit scenes, and an ending earned in front of people who would rather it had not been.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 - The Shipment I Wasn’t Supposed to Touch
2Chapter 2 - The Boss Demands a Handshake
3Chapter 3 - The Neutral Ground We Both Hate
4Chapter 4 - The Beating That Made Us Bleed the Same
5Chapter 5 - The Soft-Hearted Thief
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6Chapter 6 - The Rooftop Confession
7Chapter 7 - The Goose and the Feather
8Chapter 8 - The Barbershop with Two Doors
9Chapter 9 - The Brothers’ Letters
10Chapter 10 - The Sketchbook Opens
11Chapter 11 - The Shadow with the Gold Tooth
12Chapter 12 - The Nightmare on the Sofa
13Chapter 13 - The Man I Could Have Been
14Chapter 14 - The Warehouse of Secrets
15Chapter 15 - The Blood on My Hands
16Chapter 16 - The Fever and the Truth
17Chapter 17 - The Kiss I Gave While the City Slept
18Chapter 18 - The Fire at the Butcher Shop
19Chapter 19 - The Detective’s Offer
20Chapter 20 - The Midnight Confession
21Chapter 21 - The Stolen Shipment Found
22Chapter 22 - The Fish-Packing Plant
23Chapter 23 - The Explosion I Walked Away From
24Chapter 24 - The Aftermath We Didn’t Earn
25Chapter 25 - The Ledger That Could Still Burn Us
26Chapter 26 - The Confession I Gave Freely
27Chapter 27 - The Five Minutes That Lasted Forever
28Chapter 28 - The Freedom I Gave Away
29The End
30About the Author
31Also by Robin Vale
32Acknowledgements
33A Note from the Author
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