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Terms and Conditions of Love
Mara Chen fixes messes for a living, quietly, precisely, from a safe legal distance. Kit Rowan builds messes, brilliantly, chaotically, and calls them features. When a journalist mistakes their working relationship for a real one during his app's biggest launch, the board decides the fake romance is good for business, and Mara finds herself contractually obligated to hold hands with the most distracting man she's ever met. Between disastrous investor dinners, a scene-stealing office dog, and a data-privacy flaw that threatens everything Kit has built, the two of them discover that faking a relationship is much harder than admitting a real one. Terms and Conditions of Love is a witty, warm, non-graphic romantic comedy about opposites, honesty, and the terrifying relief of being fully known. Narrated by Geffen. By Poppy Sinclair. Listed listening length: 42 minutes. Category: Romantic Comedy / Banter. Story dynamics: Fake Relationship / Marriage of Convenience, Workplace / Boss-Employee, Opposites Attract, Grumpy/Sunshine.
The Last Honest Rehearsal
Celeste Navarro doesn't do improvisation. Her plays are precise, her authorship non-negotiable, ever since a mentor stole her first script and taught her that control is the only safety there is. Julian Cross doesn't do vulnerability — not the real kind. Behind the easy charm is a man who overprepares every line to hide a reading difference he's spent his career disguising, and a grief he never agreed to put on stage. When Julian publicly objects to a scene drawn from his late sister's story, a leaked rehearsal clip turns them into tabloid villains overnight, and their frantic, half-true claim that the fight was 'lovers' banter' becomes a six-week fake engagement neither of them wanted. Forced into daily rehearsals and nightly photo calls, they start renegotiating the play scene by scene — and somewhere between the blocking notes and the borrowed intimacy, the performance stops being fake. But when an old, coercive chapter of Celeste's past resurfaces in the press, Julian's instinct to protect her collides with the one boundary he swore never to cross: he rewrites her climactic scene without asking, and repeats, almost exactly, the theft that broke her trust in the first place. What happens next will cost him a career opportunity, cost her the last of her guardedness, and ask them both the same question the play has been asking all along — what does it actually mean to be seen, instead of used? The Last Honest Rehearsal is a witty, sensual, backstage romance about two artists learning that the bravest performance is the one where nobody's pretending. By HoneyBooks Studio. Listed listening length: 83 minutes. Category: Contemporary Romance. Story dynamics: Fake Relationship, Rivals to Lovers, He Falls First, Forced Proximity.
The Velvet Safe Word
She caught him stealing the one ledger she already planned to weaponize. In the velvet dark of an elite private club, crisis negotiator Valentina Saye and ex-intelligence fixer Darius Kade should have ended each other. Instead, a watching republic of blackmailers forces them into a public love affair neither can afford—and a private bargain neither can fake. To burn the network that trades in secrets and flesh, they will negotiate a safe word, stage desire under live cameras, and learn the difference between protection and possession. mature, dangerous, and consent-sharp, The Velvet Safe Word launches The Velvet Republic: where every alliance is leverage, and surrender only matters when it is freely chosen. By Celeste Morrow. Listed listening length: 15 minutes. Category: Dark Romantic Suspense. Story dynamics: Enemies to Lovers, Fake Relationship, Protector / Bodyguard, Morally Gray Love Interest. Book 1 in The Velvet Republic.
Champagne Behind Locked Doors
The invitation was a trap. The engagement was a lie. The desire was the only thing neither of them planned. When a leaked document forces crisis negotiator and covert club owner Valentina Saye to spend a members-only weekend posing as the fiancée of ex-intelligence fixer Darius Kade, she knows exactly what the Velvet Republic wants: a performance of intimacy that can be recorded, weaponized, and held over both of them forever. What she doesn't plan for is the negotiation. Locked on a surveillance-wired hotel floor with one bed, one cover story, and a council member already watching from inside the room, Valentina and Darius do what neither of them does easily — they tell the truth about what they want and what they won't give, in precise adult terms, with a safe word that means something. The performance becomes a trap for their enemy. The desire becomes something harder to contain. Council member Aldric Voss has Valentina's real name on a founding document and the leverage to destroy the sanctuary she built for everyone the republic ever used. The only way out is to bait him with false evidence, hold their cover through a dinner built on veiled threats and champagne that tastes like warning, and decide — before the locked floor opens — whether last night was strategy or something they're choosing to keep. Dangerous, opulent, and emotionally exacting, *Champagne Behind Locked Doors* is a dark romance about surveillance, surrender, and what it means to give someone your real name when the whole republic is listening. Content warnings: mature romantic themes, surveillance, blackmail, violence threat. All intimate content is consensual, negotiated, and between adult characters. Part of The Velvet Republic series. Can be read as an entry point but rewards series readers. By Celeste Morrow. Listed listening length: 21 minutes. Category: Dark Romance. Story dynamics: Fake Relationship, Only One Bed, Forced Proximity, Blackmail. Book 4 in The Velvet Republic.