Length9h 3m
About this audiobook
Dante Caruso is a man who stood in a kitchen doorway in a school blazer at fourteen and has organised his entire adult life around never being in that position again. Vivian is the woman who recognises the pendant in a photograph on her sister's phone.
The shower is still running when she finds it. She only meant to grab her bag from the kitchen table, but the phone buzzes against the wood, the one with the cracked screen Molly has been meaning to replace.
A text preview glows on the lock screen. *last night was fun. same spot friday?*
Vivian picks it up. Her thumb swipes the wrong direction and the gallery opens instead of the lock screen.
Fresh photographs at the top. A party. Red plastic cups, a haze of smoke, somebody's basement with exposed pipes and fairy lights. Molly in the middle of a group, grinning, her arm slung around a man Vivian has never seen.
She zooms in. Older. Maybe thirty-five. Grey at the temples, a heavy jaw, a neck tattoo above the collar. And at his throat, a gold chain with a falcon pendant, wings spread, beak sharp.
Molly is nineteen and has been lying about where she goes at night since March. Vivian is twenty-seven and has been raising her since their mother died, which does not entitle her to read a phone and does not stop her doing it either.
What follows: a photograph in a pocket, an orphan in a bed, a second offer, a limousine, feast preparations, a thread leading somewhere nobody wanted it to lead, a pickpocket, and the lighting of a first candle.
*I told Frankie to keep her there.*
*And Frankie turned out to be a traitor. You trusted him. You trusted him with everything.*
He kissed her before she climbed to the catwalk. Hard and quick, one hand on the rail.
Vivian has to decide whether a man who can find her sister in nine hours is worth the thing she would have to hand him to do it, which is the last piece of leverage she has ever held over anybody.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Mystery and Thriller
Length9 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Prologue
3Chapter 1 - The Photo in Her Pocket
4Chapter 2 - The Orphan in the Bed
5Chapter 3 - The Second Offer
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6Chapter 4 - The King’s Limousine
7Chapter 5 - The Feast Preparations
8Chapter 6 - The Cartel Thread
9Chapter 7 - The Pickpocket and the Don
10Chapter 8 - The First Candle
11Chapter 9 - The Locket and the Lie
12Chapter 10 - The Car in the Rain
13Chapter 11 - The Disappeared Sister
14Chapter 12 - The Lion’s Mouth
15Chapter 13 - The Ledger and the Debt
16Chapter 14 - The Bullet for You
17Chapter 15 - The Coup at Dawn
18Chapter 16 - The Weight of the Revolver
19Chapter 17 - The Bar Where Secrets Die
20Chapter 18 - The Rain That Washes Everything
21Chapter 19 - The Sister’s War
22Chapter 20 - The Turning Tide
23Chapter 21 - The Forest of Lies
24Chapter 22 - The Gilded Cage
25Chapter 23 - The Bed of Ashes
26Chapter 24 - The Long Walk Alone
27Chapter 25 - The Cathedral of Wolves
28Chapter 26 - The Reckoning of Blood
29Chapter 27 - The Night of the Trap
30Chapter 28 - The Altar of Revenge
31Chapter 29 - The Orphan’s Choice
32Chapter 30 - The Crown of Thorns
33Chapter 31 - The Beginning of Forever
34The End
35About the Author
36Also by Nadia Vance
37Acknowledgements
38A Note from the Author
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