Credit lines usually settle an argument about who wrote a book. On this romance audiobook the credit line starts one. The byline reads Laura Beers. Three of the five signed responses underneath it name Bethany Rosa instead, and one specifies the third book in The Pursuit Series by Bethany Rosa, which matches the series slot on the record exactly. Both are real working romance novelists, so nothing about the mismatch looks wrong until you read the page all the way to the bottom.
Our Take on A Dangerous Pursuit
Mia Nightingale Marcos and Jackson Soloman are the couple, and the setup is pure workplace friction. Jackson inherits the family business along with an assistant covering a maternity leave, decides to make the job unbearable until she quits, and discovers she declines to quit. A February 2025 five-star verdict from Robin describes the result as office tension welded to an age-gap dynamic, with the writing addictive and the balance between slow burn and heat carefully held.
What that response does not resolve is the byline. Robin credits Bethany Rosa twice, once around the title and once for the series, while the author field on the record says Laura Beers throughout. Neither name should be quietly corrected into the other by anyone without access to the contract. The consequence for a buyer is concrete: searching either name pulls up a catalog, and only one of those catalogs actually contains this book.
Eleven hours and six minutes is a generous runtime for contemporary romance, and the story spends some of it running two first-person voices. Jackson narrates his half, Mia narrates hers, and the description itself alternates between them mid-page. Aaron Shedlock is credited alone for both, which is worth knowing before you commit: dual-viewpoint romance is frequently cast with two readers, and this production is not.
Gallatin Publishing issued the recording on January 23, 2025, and the series line places it third in The Pursuit Series, which is the one piece of metadata every party on the page agrees about. Its description leans hard on a stated comparison to Ana Huang and on casino language, promising risk, resilience and a final gamble for love. What the description never does is name the two earlier books, so a listener who wants to begin at the beginning has to reconstruct the order from the reviews instead of from the record.
Why Listen to A Dangerous Pursuit
Shedlock's solo casting is also the only aspect of the audio anybody on the page addresses. Hartley, writing in April 2025, closes a five-star verdict by calling the audiobook thoroughly enjoyable and recommending that people listen to it as well as read it. That is one response in five, and it stops short of describing anything specific, but it is the single first-hand report that the recording exists and satisfied at least one buyer. That same verdict is useful about structure too. It flags Jackson as a male lead who starts out a jerk and earns a genuine redemption arc, praises how consistently strong Mia stays, and confirms the happy ending that readers of this subgenre want guaranteed before they commit. It also looks ahead to Cici and Eli, two characters this reader has tracked since book one, which tells you the series carries its secondary couples forward instead of resetting.
Poker is the engine underneath the office plot, and it gives the book something most workplace romances lack. Mia balances the day job against private card games at night, which is where the danger in the title comes from and where the story stops being about a difficult boss. The copy's talk of folding, jackpots and last bets is not decoration; it is the actual mechanism that moves the second half.
What to Watch For in A Dangerous Pursuit
Whoever tagged this record filed a contemporary office romance under Royalty. No crown, no court and no aristocracy appears in the description or in a single written response, so the label is simply wrong, and it will keep the title out of searches that would find its readers while dropping it into ones that never will. Combined with the byline problem, the record now misidentifies both the writer and the subgenre.
Age is the more serious flag on this record. The description calls Mia an assistant barely out of high school. Natashia8911, writing in November 2024, puts a number on that and describes a quick-witted seventeen-year-old who grew up fast after a father's gambling addiction broke the family. A school-age protagonist inside a book the same response headlines as steamy is something to weigh before purchase, not to discover eleven hours in.
That November 2024 date carries information of its own. The audio edition was published on January 23, 2025, which puts the response almost two months ahead of the recording it now sits beneath. Whatever that reader enjoyed, it was not this file. Averages assembled partly from print and ebook readers remain useful about plot and pacing; they simply cannot speak for a recording that did not yet exist when they were written.
Who Should Listen to A Dangerous Pursuit
Romance listeners who want the boss-and-assistant setup played hot and with real jeopardy will find this squarely aimed at them. The description names Ana Huang as its comparison point, and the responses back that up: crisp dialogue, animosity curdling into obsession, a guaranteed happy ending, and enough card-table danger to keep the back half moving. Series readers get the extra payoff of secondary couples carried forward rather than dropped.
The wrong buyer here is anyone uncomfortable with the age gap as written. Nicole Ortiz, filing three stars in December 2025 and grading it 3.5 inside the body, liked Jackson's grumpiness about a young replacement and admired Mia's spine once the loan sharks and the shady private games arrive, yet landed on mixed feelings overall. If a heroine still counting down to a first college semester inside a steamy romance is a line for you, this sits on the wrong side of it.
Both halves of the credit problem deserve repeating before you buy, because neither is visible from a search result. The byline and the responses disagree about who wrote the book, and the subgenre tag advertises a story about royalty that nobody involved has read. Neither error touches the recording itself, which one buyer recommends outright. Check the series position rather than the author field if you want to land on the right book.
Before You Listen
Is the A Dangerous Pursuit audiobook narrated by one reader or two?
One. Aaron Shedlock is the only reader credited, on a story that alternates first-person chapters between Jackson and Mia. Dual-viewpoint romance is often cast with a male and a female reader for exactly that reason, so anyone who prefers that split should know this production does not use it before committing to the full recording.
Does the age gap in A Dangerous Pursuit read as romantic or uncomfortable?
That depends on where your line sits. A February 2025 five-star response from Piaras argues the delicate dynamic is handled with sensitivity, with initial animosity turning into a bond that carries past the age difference, and credits crisp dialogue for the tension. Readers troubled by the heroine's stated school-age status will not be talked round by craft.
How long is the A Dangerous Pursuit audiobook, and does the pacing hold up?
Eleven hours and six minutes. The office half runs on friction between a new boss and the assistant he wants gone, while the night half runs on private poker games and the debts behind them, so the second thread supplies momentum once the workplace antagonism resolves. No written response raises length as a problem.
