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What it’s about
Billie van Buren has built her life around order, achievement, and careful planning. But when her years-long engagement ends in a humiliating breakup, that stability begins to unravel. Her ex-fiancé’s public disparagement of her bedroom skills leaves the brilliant but sheltered doctoral student struggling with her confidence, while the fallout threatens to disappoint her family and fracture her friend group. The last person Billie expects to turn to is Dr. Maxwell Austin, a reckless, charming, self-assured medical fellow—and her longtime frenemy. Though they usually keep their distance beyond the occasional bout of teasing and bickering, Billie’s statistics expertise brings them together professionally.
Then she asks Max for help becoming more confident in bed through hands-on practice. Their arrangement may seem practical, but working so closely with someone who is everything Billie is not raises an entirely different set of complications. As they navigate the boundary between collaboration and intimacy, Billie must determine whether confidence can be learned—and what it means to trust Max with more than her professional skills.
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Emotional Resonance
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Narrator Experience
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- Brooke Bloomingdale appears on at least 1 other verified audiobook edition in our catalog.
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bad in bed sits comfortably in genre territory. The story is better characterized than the recording right now, so the recommendation stays grounded in the book itself. Emotional Impact is one of the more consistent strengths readers point to. The narrator is confirmed, but the book itself is easier to characterize than this particular performance. Until the recording has stronger support, the narrator credit is useful context rather than a performance verdict.
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Runtime & Edition Details
- Runtime
- 8 hours and 41 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Audible Originals
- Audiobook release date
- October 22, 2026
- Language
- English
- ASIN
- B0HJSRCQ7K
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