One Minute to Midnight

By: Cedar James

Narrated by: Rachel Dane, Bailey Turpin

Vivienne

They say whatever you’re doing at midnight sets the tone for your whole year. Vivienne really hopes that’s not true… unless it is.

Her New Year’s Eve is already circling the drain. A viral scandal has torpedoed her reputation, her father is breathing down her neck, and a museum full of judgmental donors is the last place she wants to be.

Cue Brooks Hayes.

The museum's Head of Security. Tall. Serious. Handsome in a broody, yet adorable way. Maddeningly unimpressed by her. The most attractive man she’s ever wanted to strangle.

Their first interaction is a disaster. Their second is worse, ending with the doors to an off-limits exhibit sealing shut and locking them inside.

Worst New Year’s Eve ever? Or the best mistake she’ll ever make?

Brooks

Brooks Hayes believes in rules. Order. And keeping his head down and his emotions locked up tight.

Then Vivienne Armitage walks into his museum.

She’s glittering trouble and defiance. Recently disgraced. Wildly unapologetic. And absolutely determined to test every ounce of his self-control. She’s the last person he should want … and the only one he can’t seem to keep his eyes off.

When fate traps them alone, overnight, with no way out until morning, the sexual tension crackling between them is at risk of snapping.

Even though Brooks knows better than to cross the line, midnight is coming.

And some rules are made to be broken.

©2025 Cedar James (P)2026 Cedar James

More please!

So good! I love anything Cedar James writes. Especially love when Rachel Dane narrates! Looking forward to hearing more from Bailey Turpin.

Such a great quickie….

I don’t usually do short romances… but this one ATE and left NO crumbs. 🥵
Cedar James somehow packed chemistry, tension, emotion, and SPICE into a bite-sized audiobook that had me kicking my feet and screaming.

This is forced proximity done RIGHT—the kind where the tension is suffocating, the banter is sharp enough to cut, and every look feels illegal. Vivienne and Brooks? Absolutely unhinged levels of chemistry. The slow burn snaps, the spice hits, and suddenly you’re questioning why this book isn’t longer because YOU. ARE. NOT. READY. FOR. IT. TO. END.

The emotional payoff? Swoony.
The happily ever after? Earned.
The only crime? It ended too soon. I need MORE Vivienne and Brooks immediately. 🫠

First Cedar James book. First time with these narrators.
Not the last. I’m obsessed.

Story: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Read it. Listen to it. Thank me later. 😌🔥

It’s hot, it’s banter, it’s quick

Okay I loved everything about this and demand more!! It is a fast listen, but well worth it! There is banter and it plays out like a movie scene!
I can’t wait for the next one on the series!!

Rachel is quickly becoming one of my fav narrators and this is my first listen from Bailey and I can’t wait to hear more of his work! GREAT job to the both of them as well as Cedar for the story!!

A great start to the new year

What a great story with an even more spectacular performance! Perfect start to the new year.

Tantalizing

*chefs kiss* This is a short story that will leave you wanting more and more. Like, a whole year more of short stories as tantalizing as this one. You can tell how the characters warm up to each other throughout the story. In more ways then one. The characters have back stories! In a short story that is rare, but yet Cedar manages to sprinkle it in. I can't wait for more!