The Captain's Penalty
A Fake Engagement, Forced Proximity Hockey RomanceBy Casey Bell
Length8h 10m
About this audiobook
What do you do with a captain who will not speak to the press, when the footage of the hit is already looping on every sports network from Portland to Toronto?
Thirty-five thousand feet over Utah, Maren Keller has rewritten the press release three times and closed the laptop when the beverage cart rattled past. In the dark screen she catches her own reflection. Sharp green eyes that look older than thirty-two. A single silver stud in her left ear, a gift from her mother after the first surgery, back when the doctors said six months of recovery and it turned into eighteen.
The file arrived at 5:47 that morning with fourteen words in the subject line. *Cole Devlin won't talk to us. He won't talk to anyone. He hates PR.*
She typed back: *He hasn't met me yet.*
Brave words at altitude, anchored to a seat. She will feel differently about them within the hour.
The arena's executive suite smells of fresh coffee and expensive carpet cleaner, and the man she has been flown across the country to fix has no interest in being fixed, no interest in explaining himself, and one very good reason for the silence that he is not going to give her.
What follows: a lie written in stick tape, a contract neither of them can afford to break, a ride she should have walked away from, a crack in the armour that appears at the worst possible time, a night he lets his brother down, a hospital bed that holds far more than a patient, and a vote that takes the room apart.
*He'd made coffee without burning it. He'd kissed her forehead before she'd fully woken up. Small things. Ordinary things.*
*And you looked me in the eye and lied.*
*I was scared.*
She flew out here believing she manages narratives for a living. What she finds behind this one may permanently rearrange what she thinks her own silence over the last eighteen months was actually protecting.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 10 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Prologue
3Chapter 1 - The Hit I Never Wanted to Defend
4Chapter 2 - The Lie I Wrote in Tape and Blood
5Chapter 3 - The Contract I Can’t Afford to Break
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6Chapter 4 - The Ride I Should Have Walked Away From
7Chapter 5 - The Crack in My Armor I Didn’t Hear
8Chapter 6 - The Night I Let My Brother Die Twice
9Chapter 7 - The Hospital Bed That Held My Heart
10Chapter 8 - The Vote That Broke My Armor
11Chapter 9 - The Secret I Never Meant to Keep
12Chapter 10 - The Sculpture That Melted at Midnight
13Chapter 11 - The Fallout That Felt Like Ice
14Chapter 12 - The Letter I Was Too Afraid to Open
15Chapter 13 - The Confession That Unfroze My Heart
16Chapter 14 - The Ice That Melted Between Us
17Chapter 15 - The Truth That Weighed Like a Trophy
18Chapter 16 - The Offer That Cost More Than Money
19Chapter 17 - The Night That Almost Broke the Rink
20Chapter 18 - The Visit That Changed Everything
21Chapter 19 - The Threat I Couldn’t Ignore
22Chapter 20 - The Lie That Almost Won
23Chapter 21 - The Betrayal I Saw Coming
24Chapter 22 - The Game That Brought Us Back
25Chapter 23 - The Secret We Decided to Keep
26Chapter 24 - The Leak That Almost Broke Us
27Chapter 25 - The Captain’s Final Penalty (and Redemption)
28About the Author
29The End
30About the Author
31Also by Casey Bell
32Acknowledgements
33A Note from the Author
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