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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 Real Estate
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Loved the characters and narration. Great love story and fantastic ending. Love this story and look forward to the next one.

Fun and entertaining

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Loved it, and Soo well narrated. so glad I downloaded this one. Definitely will look for more narrated by these two.. and stories by Emma chase.

Fun Story 🥰

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Perfect length, narration, characters and extremely witty!!!!

Loved it!!! Don’t go past go, download this Audiobook today!

Wow - what an Audiobook!!!

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This is hands down, my favourite book of the year! Erfect narration, a gripping story, and characters that feels real.

wow!

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I was looking for a humorous fiction for our book club and this was a stand out. Laugh out loud fun, emotion, and enough of a story to capture my mind to want to listen non stop. Great performance and I love Sean’s mastery. Def recommend.

Laugh out loud fun!

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