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A Very Good Bad Idea

By: Emma Chase
Narrated by: Sean Masters, Brooke Bloomingdale
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New York Times bestselling author Emma Chase is back with this red-hot romantic comedy about two rival real estate developers who inherit the same lucrative property. There’s just one catch: they have to live in it…together.

Block 42 Lot 17 is the most coveted oceanfront property in Shore Haven, and both Damon Burke and Jade Buchanan are certain it’s already theirs.

The elderly owner, Clarabelle Spicket, promised it to Damon. She also promised it to Jade. Awkward…

Now thanks to a provision in the will, the town’s coldest real estate shark and its fiercest power player are forced to spend the next four months living there together or else they forfeit the property.

Even worse, the dilapidated beachfront mansion seems determined to shove them into the same room—and the same bed. As wills clash, tempers flare and walls crumble…so do their defenses.

It’s a bad idea to get too close to your enemy. To care about them, need them, desperately want them.

But when rivalry turns into something far more than either of them ever expected, Damon and Jade discover that love can be a very good bad idea.

Perfect for fans of The Hating Game and Beach Read.

©2026 Emma Chase (P)2026 Audible Originals, LLC. Contemporary Romantic Comedy Feel-Good Real Estate
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with this genre we all know what we're getting,, that's not a criticism, but this is a bit different, which nice! I enjoyed the story.. Great characters and touched on some sensitive topic very well

a bit different

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Quite graphic but I heard worse however nice little romance and I liked the ending . Narrated very well

I liked the voice overs actors

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The story got off to a good start but went downhill and I gave up

Not for me

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I listen to a lot of Romance and really enjoyed this. The story was really good, different but believable. I particularly enjoyed how long they were in the hate phase doing awful things to hurt each other, then the slow burn from hate to like to love. I will definitely be listening to more Emma Chase novels. Thank you x

Great story, great performance

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Not my usual choice of novel theme but I really enjoyed this story and it’s happy ending. A great performance from the narrators, too.

Not my usual listen.

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