The Rival's Sin
A Public Humiliation RomantasyBy Robin Vale
Length7h 30m
About this audiobook
A selectman lets himself in through the workshop door without knocking and asks a cabinetmaker to shake hands with a Hawthorn.
*You expect me to shake hands with a Hawthorn?*
Ezra Whitfield keeps his voice flat, his palm braced against the chair leg he has been sanding for the better part of an hour. The mahogany has gone smooth as bone under his touch and he has not noticed the last ten minutes of work.
His mind has been elsewhere. On Clara's cough. On the stack of unpaid invoices beneath the till. On the way the morning light through the workshop windows makes every dust mote look like a judgment.
The selectman shifts his weight. A nose like a walnut and a watch chain across his belly.
The proposal is a joint exhibit, a shared stand, and a public handshake between two families who have not spoken civilly since a patent dispute that killed one of them.
Lucas Hawthorn agrees to it before Ezra does, which is the single most irritating thing that has happened to him this year.
The selectman lets himself in through the side door without knocking, which tells Ezra everything about how this conversation is expected to go. Harold Peele has a nose like a walnut and a watch chain across his belly, and he has come to propose a public handshake between two families who have not spoken civilly since a patent dispute.
What follows: the lie he has built his life on, a house he swore he would never enter, a fall that strips a man of his dignity, a wound hidden behind a window, a debt that cannot be repaid, a night that holds two people, a leash that tightens, and a blade delivered in a whisper.
*She'd taken everything of his. His letters, his patent, his memory. But she'd missed this.*
*I don't know how to be with anybody. But I know how to be with you. And right now, that's enough.*
Historical MM romance between two rival cabinetmakers, a patent dispute that outlived the men who started it, a sister with a cough and no money for a doctor, a public exhibition that becomes a public reckoning, an ending both men have to fight the period itself for.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length7 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Lie I Built My Life On
3Chapter 2 - The House I Swore I’d Never Enter
4Chapter 3 - The Fall That Stripped My Pride
5Chapter 4 - The Wound Behind the Window
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6Chapter 5 - The Debt I Cannot Repay
7Chapter 6 - The Night That Held Us
8Chapter 7 - The Leash That Tightens
9Chapter 8 - The Blade of a Whisper
10Chapter 9 - The Glass That Cut Us Open
11Chapter 10 - The Price of a Secret
12Chapter 11 - The Key I Couldn’t Keep
13Chapter 12 - The Lie of a Gala Smile
14Chapter 13 - The First Stone I Threw
15Chapter 14 - The Chain of What We Owe
16Chapter 15 - The Noose I Tied Myself
17Chapter 16 - The Game She Played Better
18Chapter 17 - The Betrayal I Dressed in Love
19Chapter 18 - The Moment the World Split
20Chapter 19 - The Apology Written in Blood and Ash
21Chapter 20 - The Grand Gesture I Could Not Afford—Until I Had Nothing
22Chapter 21 - The Home We Rebuilt
23Chapter 22 - The Cure That Cost Everything
24Chapter 23 - The Gala Without a Grudge
25The End
26About the Author
27Also by Robin Vale
28Acknowledgements
29A Note from the Author
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