The Magnate's Ruthless Heart
A Revenge, Don's Daughter Mafia RomanceBy Nadia Vance
Length8h 37m
About this audiobook
Julian is eight years old, sitting on the third step from the top with a wooden train engine in both hands, listening through the banister slats. *"He's eight years old, Charles. He thinks his father is a ghost."* The front door clicks shut.
That night he opens his bedroom window a crack and throws the train onto the lawn. In the morning it is gone. He does not think about it again for thirty years.
By then he runs the company. He has a Cold-Seat Rule — fifteen minutes before the meeting, you pick your seat and you stay in it. He has the numbers for the Sorenson acquisition: six months to absorb, eighteen to restructure, three years to break even on five hundred million pounds. He has four of the votes he needs.
Harper Vance gives him the fifth after a pause of three seconds. *"Don't thank me yet. Plenty of time to change my mind."*
Then his assistant hands him a printout of a blog post that has gone round the office group chat in an hour. The header reads EyeForDesign. The title is *The Office of a Man Who Has Never Had to Share His Toys.* The writer says the room is not a room, it is a display case, and the man in it is not a person, he is a brand — and that she knows this because she designed it.
Sienna Barlow. Born in Hackney, Interior Architecture at the University of the Arts London, three firms before she went freelance. By five o'clock Julian has her whole life in a file, because he is thorough and because he has never once let anything go unanswered.
What the file does not contain is the rest of her week: an anonymous account that has evidence about her past and will use it unless she hands over the floor plans of the Sorenson building, and a phone that keeps buzzing with *Tomorrow or we expose you.*
So when the server room log produces her name against that file in the small hours — opened, then downloaded three minutes later — the case is already built, and it is already far too tidy.
There is also the part no one in the boardroom knows about: a sister whose hands have started to shake, a mother who has spent twenty years trying to forget, and a man genuinely afraid that he will wake up one morning and find he has turned into his father.
This is a contemporary billionaire romance set in London, about an acquisition, a viral takedown, a designer being squeezed, and a boy who threw a train out of a window. The romance is closed-door.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Mystery and Thriller
Length8 hrs 37 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
2Chapter 1 - The Lie I Built My Life On
3Chapter 2 - The Door I Swore I’d Never Open
4Chapter 3 - The Weight of a Handshake
5Chapter 4 - The Colour of Hurt
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6Chapter 5 - The Hospital Visit
7Chapter 6 - The Silence Between Kisses
8Chapter 7 - The Stained-Glass Ceiling
9Chapter 8 - The Brothers We Carry
10Chapter 9 - The Gala’s Price
11Chapter 10 - The Violet Ink
12Chapter 11 - The Mother’s Secret
13Chapter 12 - The Grace of Being Seen
14Chapter 13 - The Confrontation
15Chapter 14 - The Breaking Point
16Chapter 15 - The Warehouse
17Chapter 16 - The Hospital Again
18Chapter 17 - The First Morning After
19Chapter 18 - The Second Act
20Chapter 19 - The Mother’s Rehab
21Chapter 20 - The Art of Waiting
22Chapter 21 - The Last Lie
23Chapter 22 - The Final Thread
24Chapter 23 - The Tide Turns
25Chapter 24 - The Reckoning
26Chapter 25 - The Proposal Revisited
27Chapter 26 - The Light We Let In
28Epilogue
29The End
30About the Author
31Also by Nadia Vance
32Acknowledgements
33A Note from the Author
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