<![CDATA[Paper Vows — A Fake-Marriage Billionaire Romance]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia He offered her a one-year marriage. Nobody told her hearts don't read contracts.

Esme Hart has ninety days to save her late mother's art gallery. So when ice-cold tech billionaire Adrian Vale walks in with an impossible offer — marry me for one year, and the debt disappears — she signs. It's just paper. There's even a clause: no feelings.

Then she meets the grieving seven-year-old he's secretly learning the piano for, and "just paper" starts to feel like the realest thing she's ever had.

A serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

Early episodes + bonus scenes are on my Patreon. Links in the description.

]]> RSS.com 2026.817.133114 Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:55:15 GMT en 6beab07d-5bd1-54a3-b930-fd953a567f66 https://media.rss.com/paper-vows-mia/podcast_cover_20260803_173732_00036ed524808c033479db2c20432e08.png Paper Vows — A Fake-Marriage Billionaire Romance https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia no Support Us Mia 2026 Mia Mia false episodic 745e4400-9934-11f1-895c-3d3bdf166251 podcast true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 28: The Wanting]]> I didn't answer Pip's question. I want that on the record, because I've told you the whole truth of this year, the brave parts and the cowardly ones, and this was one of the cowardly ones: my daughter asked me why I'd keep her forever but not the man I loved, and I said, "That's a grown-up thing, sweetheart, I'm still working it out," which is the precise sentence my mother would have used, the warm deflection, the kind lie that closes a door instead of walking through it. Pip accepted it,...

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044162 c6a45f90-5883-41eb-bf1f-b0bf3ad65e74 1040 full 1 1 28 28 Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:54:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 27: Mine]]> I could not stop hearing it. My eight-year-old daughter had stood in a hallway at the war-hour in her pyjamas and casually dismantled, in one sentence, the entire load-bearing lie of my adult life — the lie that said want and fear were opposites, that being frightened of a thing was proof you shouldn't have it, that the flinch was a verdict instead of a symptom. Pip didn't believe any of that, because no one had taught it to her yet. To her, wanting something and being scared of wanting it...

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044161 457c577d-e219-48be-b510-b2e3e3759e43 1037 full 1 1 27 27 Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:54:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 26: Just a Man]]> He couldn't finish the question — if I have nothing, am I still — so I finished the answer, and I did it the way we do things now, in the daylight, with no kindness laid over the top to make it go down easier. Because the kind version would have been a lie, and he'd have heard the lie, and the lie would have left the real fear exactly where it was, buried, doing its work in the dark.

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044159 21a76fc1-333f-4abd-8e6d-f68e0855daf5 1010 full 1 1 26 26 Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:53:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 25: The Last Layer]]> Nobody warns you that peace is its own kind of difficult.

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044157 b2a74bfe-eaf8-41bf-89da-2019ef3e9d17 1029 full 1 1 25 25 Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:52:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 24: Clean]]> I met Mr. Sorrel in the daylight, on purpose, at a café with windows, in the middle of an ordinary afternoon — because I had learned by then that the single most useful thing you can do to a man who lives in the dark is refuse to meet him anywhere but the light. He came beautifully dressed, as always, but the polish had a crack in it now, the first I'd ever seen, and he ordered tea he didn't drink and laid his offer on the table between us like a man laying down what he believes is the...

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044154 6f8de4c0-0d07-4718-a5ff-0eb9a3dca6ad 1041 full 1 1 24 24 Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:51:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 23: Held]]> I stood alone in my mother's gallery after Marcus left, with his called-debt notice on the counter where she'd taught me to clean a swab, and I felt my whole life's reflex come up in me like a tide, and the reflex said: carry it alone.

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044151 25f1d4e6-4a1d-47a1-9cbe-ed616d3d1aa2 1020 full 1 1 23 23 Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:50:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 22: Raking Light]]> There is a way of looking at a painting we call raking light: you take a single lamp and you lower it almost flat to the surface, so the light skims across the canvas instead of facing it, and suddenly everything the painting has been hiding from straight-on looking throws a shadow. Old repairs. Pressed-down cracks. The ghost of a signature scraped off. The little hills and valleys of every lie a surface ever told. A painting can look flawless head-on and confess its entire secret history...

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044150 624f6049-cf49-43db-9d20-5b2a28383f9f 1067 full 1 1 22 22 Sun, 23 Aug 2026 21:50:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 21: Separation]]> I slept in the studio that night. The first night apart since I'd said I loved him, and I spent it among the half-cleaned paintings and the smell of solvent, on the narrow cot my mother used to nap on when a restoration ran past midnight, and I did not sleep so much as lie very still inside the particular grief of discovering that the person you've finally let all the way in has a locked room in him with your name on the door.

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044148 253aaf8c-b661-4203-ad45-6dcbc69d9e2c 1015 full 1 1 21 21 Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:49:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 20: Duress]]> There is a principle in contract law I learned, ironically, from the lawyer who drew up my marriage: a contract signed under duress is void. Not weakened. Not suspect. Void — as if it never existed at all. Because the law, in its occasional wisdom, understands that consent extracted with a gun to your head is not consent; it's just compliance wearing consent's coat. A thing you sign because you'll lose something terrible if you don't is not a promise. It's a ransom.

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044147 915591a8-c125-4fd3-8373-31b02cf4bb6f 993 full 1 1 20 20 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:48:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 19: The Real Kind]]> A family court is not the marble room. That was the first thing I understood walking in: no grand cold theatre, just a small bright municipal room that smelled of radiator dust and other people's worst days, a tired carpet, a judge's bench barely raised, a box of tissues placed on every table by someone who had learned the hard way you always need them. It is, I think, the most honest room in the entire justice system, because nobody comes to family court to win money. They come because a...

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044145 34d7cf41-dc13-41e7-8142-1db58f6a4ca8 999 full 1 1 19 19 Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:47:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 18: Visible Mending]]> We threw her the birthday in the warm place, the way she'd ordered, among the paintings, with everyone who'd picked her — and we did it knowing that in the morning a court would decide whether it was the last one she'd have in this family. That is a specific kind of love, throwing a perfect party on the edge of a cliff. You learn it, I think, from mothers. Iris threw me a birthday three weeks before she died and never let me see the edge she was standing on. I understood, finally, what that...

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044144 a46c0afa-03c4-4544-9e5d-28fcfc162ba5 1033 full 1 1 18 18 Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:46:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 17: Consolidation]]> There is a step in conservation called consolidation, and it is the least glamorous and most important thing I do. Before you clean, before you inpaint, before any of the visible miracle-work — when a painting is flaking, when the paint is lifting off the canvas in a thousand tiny scales and the whole image is quietly turning to dust at the edges — you stop everything and you consolidate. You get adhesive under the lifting paint, scale by scale, and you press it back down to the ground it...

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044141 8638dd69-61c2-4997-bf9f-417e51ae7090 1029 full 1 1 17 17 Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:45:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 16: The Smallest Witness]]> "Do I have to do a test about if you're allowed to keep me? What if I get it wrong?"

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044140 6e84e439-fdc6-4fa6-ae07-64da9ee09c59 1022 full 1 1 16 16 Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:44:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 15: The Hand]]> We sat with the lawyer's sentence for a long time after she'd hung up. A piece of paper, in both your hands, that says the marriage was always meant to end. Adrian had gone to the window, to the city, to the place he goes when the only thing left to manage is himself. And I sat at the counter with Pip's terrible coffee going cold and did the thing I do, the only thing I have ever reliably known how to do, which is to think about it as a painting.

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044137 6a6bf674-5dd8-4f1b-91d8-81c9820fb289 1045 full 1 1 15 15 Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:42:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 14: The Paper One]]> "Why is everybody awake again?"

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044135 87239cb0-4e82-4f6b-a233-21bf162fbf9d 1063 full 1 1 14 14 Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:42:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 13: Inpainting]]> There is a stage in restoration called inpainting — the part where, after you've cleaned a painting back and stabilised it and faced the honest map of everything it has lost, you finally pick up a brush and begin, very carefully, to fill the gaps. Not to deceive. The cardinal rule is that good inpainting is always reversible and never pretends the loss didn't happen; you fill the missing places so the eye can read the whole picture again, but you do it so that any restorer who comes after...

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044132 8066b663-d60f-4490-a66b-f09e43b5332a 1019 full 1 1 13 13 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:41:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 12: Craquelure]]> There's a word for the fine web of cracks that spreads across the surface of an old painting as it ages — craquelure. Every aged canvas has it, this lacework of tiny fractures running through the paint, and the thing they never tell you outside the trade is that it isn't damage, exactly. It's just time, showing. It's what happens to anything that has survived long enough, pulling very slowly against itself until the whole surface is veined with the evidence of having lasted. You learn, as a...

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044127 bb7d4a17-f410-44b5-a232-3f9bb8af68f9 1009 full 1 1 12 12 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:39:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 11: The Frame]]> By breakfast we were a headline, and by lunch we were a narrative, and if you want to understand the difference — and it is the whole difference, the one my entire trade is built on — a headline is a fact, and a narrative is a frame, and the frame is where all the lying lives.

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044122 5cf09e52-785d-4a41-b89d-05f91db9e7e4 1046 full 1 1 11 11 Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:38:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 10: Pentimento]]> The fourth.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044121 4d16b84d-5aba-4564-a2e4-09d7e7e90410 1009 full 1 1 10 10 Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:37:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 9: The Underdrawing]]> My pulse had gone very clear. It's a particular clarity, the one you get at the bottom of the worst thing — when there's nothing left to protect, so there's nothing left to be afraid of. I'd felt it exactly twice before. Once at my mother's bedside. Once on the gallery floor with the final notice in my hand. And now, in a marble room full of strangers in good suits, with the whole rest of my life balanced on the next thing out of my mouth.

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044119 00b30c02-ddfa-4087-8766-acb0bfcb40fd 1002 full 1 1 9 9 Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:36:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 8: Daylight]]> I woke happy for the second time in my fake marriage, and this time I let myself have it for almost four whole minutes before the world took it back.

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044117 ec183a6c-b9b6-473c-870c-131bbe5cdf47 1007 full 1 1 8 8 Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:35:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 7: Clause Four]]> I carried what I'd found in the visitor book around for four days like a stone in my coat, and it changed the weight of everything.

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044113 950a193f-417e-4b80-8419-6f8690e05295 980 full 1 1 7 7 Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:35:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 6: Provenance]]> In restoration there's a word we use for the history of a thing — provenance. Where it came from, whose hands it passed through, what it survived to reach you. A painting without provenance is worth a fraction of one with it, because what you're really buying, when you buy art, is the story of how it got to be in front of you. I have spent my whole life believing that the story of a thing is the most valuable part of it.

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044112 32a56957-15f2-47f2-b166-7e0e6cdb89a2 1017 full 1 1 6 6 Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:34:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 5: The Seam]]> Three weeks into my fake marriage I woke up happy, and lay very still in the most comfortable bed I had ever owned, and was afraid.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044111 fe5fda1f-0bd6-4d61-bebf-2525e80a5900 1017 full 1 1 5 5 Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:33:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 4: The Crack in the Ice]]> By the time Saturday came, Adrian had prepared for the arrival of a grieving seven-year-old the way he would have prepared for a hostile acquisition.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044109 d3322768-45ea-44cf-a8fc-1189fe0f3cd4 1002 full 1 1 4 4 Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:32:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 3: The Performance]]> "We met," Adrian said, in the back of the car on the way to the Hammonds', in the tone of a man reading a flight-safety card, "eleven months ago. You were restoring a painting for a mutual acquaintance. I came to collect it. It took longer than expected."

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044104 e538eb38-61bf-4044-a033-c3cf10f9f579 986 full 1 1 3 3 Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:29:00 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 2: The Terms]]> I signed away a year of my life on a Wednesday morning, in a glass conference room forty floors above the city, with a fountain pen that probably cost more than the seascape I'd been cleaning when my old life ended.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3044102 6585f6a2-735c-4f89-88f8-2e50d834b039 1036 full 1 1 2 2 Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:28:20 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 1: The Offer]]> The letter that ended my old life came on a Tuesday, tucked between a gas bill and a flyer for a pizza place that had closed two years ago, and I almost threw it out with the pizza.

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/paper-vows-mia/3043926 648e6f33-3f20-4010-8d42-009e19c5a5bc 984 full 1 1 1 1 Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:05:39 GMT false true <![CDATA[Paper Vows — Season 1, Trailer]]> He offered her a one-year marriage. Nobody told her hearts don't read contracts. Esme Hart has ninety days to save her late mother's art gallery. So when ice-cold tech billionaire Adrian Vale walks in with an impossible offer — marry me for one year, and the debt disappears — she signs. It's just paper. There's even a clause: no feelings. Then she meets the grieving seven-year-old he's secretly learning the piano for, and 'just paper' starts to feel like the realest thing she's ever had.

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

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