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The Tycoon's Contract
A Billionaire's Bargain, Old Flame Billionaire RomanceBy Adrienne Cole
Length8h 12m
About this audiobook
*You can't be serious, Marco.*
Lena Marchetti presses her palm flat against the ledger, the paper warm from the morning's first batch of cannoli still cooling in the display case. The numbers blur and then refuse to.
The bakery has been in her family longer than the block has had its current name. The building has not. That distinction did not matter for forty years and it matters enormously now, because somebody has bought the freehold and somebody's lawyers have found a clause.
Declan Vance is the somebody. Declan Vance also has a proposal, which he delivers in person, which is either courtesy or theatre and which Lena is not in a position to refuse either way.
Paper promises. A one-sided arrangement dressed as a partnership. A penthouse she does not want to live in and an appearance schedule she has to memorise.
What follows: a last straw, a man with a plan, an offer she cannot refuse, paper promises, a gala and the gutter outside it, a penthouse that functions as a prison, baking for lions, and a sister who knows too much to be handled with anything less than the truth.
*He lied to me, Dad. Declan. He never cancelled the demolition permit. He signed it.*
The counter was cold against my hip. The chandelier light scattered across his face. I kissed him until I couldn't breathe, and then I pulled back, stunned at myself.
The cost is plain. If Lena signs, the bakery survives and she does not get to say a true sentence in public for a year. If she refuses, she keeps her name and loses the only building her father ever owned outright. Declan has an easier decision and a worse one, and he has already made the wrong one before the book opens.
Contemporary billionaire romance with a family bakery, a freehold sold out from under it, an arrangement written entirely in one party's favour, an old history neither of them mentions first, explicit scenes, and a guaranteed happy ending.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Last Straw
3Chapter 2 - A Man with a Plan
4Chapter 3 - The Offer She Couldn’t Refuse
5Chapter 4 - Paper Promises
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6Chapter 5 - The Gala and the Gutter Snake
7Chapter 6 - The Penthouse Prison
8Chapter 7 - Baking for the Lions
9Chapter 8 - The Sister Who Knew Too Much
10Chapter 9 - The Photo That Caught a Heartbeat
11Chapter 10 - The Stain on the Apron
12Chapter 11 - The Hotel’s Glass Skin
13Chapter 12 - The Cake I Never Thought I’d Bake for You
14Chapter 13 - The Grave They Both Wept At
15Chapter 14 - The Promise That Couldn’t Rise
16Chapter 15 - The Birthday That Broke Everything
17Chapter 16 - The Father Who Knew the Truth
18Chapter 17 - The Permit on His Desk
19Chapter 18 - The Phone Call That Ended the Deal
20Chapter 19 - The Stove That Spoke of Betrayal
21Chapter 20 - The Cost of Control
22Chapter 21 - The Key That Opened Nothing
23Chapter 22 - The Stove She Couldn’t Fix
24Chapter 23 - The First Real Date
25Chapter 24 - The Proposal That Wasn’t a Contract
26Epilogue
27The End
28About the Author
29Also by Adrienne Cole
30Acknowledgements
31A Note from the Author
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