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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The night everything shatters
Chapter 3: The forgery and the father
Chapter 4: Windows, drainpipes, and a stolen rescue
Chapter 5: Judges call time; the house takes sides
Chapter 6: Break-ins, boundaries, and a note on the pillow
Chapter 7: Class dismissed, office locked, and fire in the walls
Chapter 8: The Game mutates; the town starts to bleed
Chapter 9: Safe houses, alliances, and the swinging pendulum blade
Chapter 10: Art, notes, and confessions in the shower
Chapter 11: The word neither of us dares to say
Chapter 12: Ruby, snakes, and the shot of antivenom
Chapter 13: Locks, lines, and the cost of a promise
Chapter 14: Fireworks nobody ever wanted
Description
Tristian Ives is an art-restoration prodigy with a secret: she’s been swapping originals for flawless forgeries. When the FBI identifies the stolen Van Gogh as a fake, Luther Grimaldi, the mob-boss collector she works for, drags her into his house, hands her a gun, and makes her family—by force and by fear. That "family" includes an arranged engagement to his son, Sin, and a new job: forge an impossible Picasso from photographs.
John—legendary thief and Tris’s not-so-former lover—discovers he was played with a forgery. He should leave. He doesn’t. As a clandestine competition called The Game mutates into a city-wide, booby-trapped scavenger hunt, bodies drop and alliances twist. Tris tries to live long enough to fix her mistakes. John tries to protect the woman he betrayed. And then the one person Tris trusts most bleeds out on her studio floor.
What follows is a breathless sprint through mafia manors, campus explosions, safehouse shadows, and a heartbreak so sharp it could be a blade. The final image is a cliffhanger—and it hurts.
Who Should Listen
- Fans of dark, high-heat romance woven through heist thrillers and mafia power plays
- Listeners who love morally gray leads, found family under pressure, and sharp banter
- Readers who enjoy propulsive cliffhangers and puzzle-box games with deadly stakes