Length8h 37m
About this audiobook
Declan kills the headlights at the back of the arena and lets the dark swallow the truck. The loading dock sits there like a mouth left open. Dead quiet. He propped the door with a wedge of wood at noon, before anyone thought to check.
*"Keep your voice down, okay? This is a secret mission."*
Ella is five. She is warm in a pink puffy coat, her skates swinging from his jacket pocket on laces she knotted herself at home. The staff know Declan Hartley comes in late sometimes and likes the ice quiet. They do not know he brings a child through the loading dock after hours.
Then a floodlight goes off in his face at the end of the corridor, and a voice tells him to identify himself.
Hannah Chen started that morning. New PR coordinator, black wool coat, phone held like a weapon, and she has already read his emergency contact list. She looks at the toddler skates with the cartoon animals on the sides and asks whether the friend's kid has a name.
She does not put Ella in the incident report.
What Declan is protecting is three years of walls. What Hannah is carrying is a tab in the back of her notebook, written in black ink with a small star beside it, that she has not opened since she packed her desk at a Minneapolis firm and drove north.
The front office wants a community event in six days. Face painting, bounce houses, sponsors. Somebody has to run it, and somebody on the team has to be the face of it, and the two people least willing to be seen are the two people assigned to each other.
There is also a brother. Finn had freckles and a grin that split his face in two, and he has been dead six years, and Declan learned to say nothing at all in the months after. Tessa Nguyen has been keeping his secrets the whole time and will not explain why to anyone.
A closed-door small-town hockey romance about a single father who skates at midnight with his kid, a publicist with her own file she cannot open, and what happens when the story gets out anyway and someone finally stands on the ice and tells it properly.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 37 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Back Door in the Dark
3Chapter 2 - The Notebook Tab I Never Open
4Chapter 3 - The Festival Nobody Wants
5Chapter 4 - The Playground in the Snow
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6Chapter 5 - The Debt That Counts
7Chapter 6 - The Budget We Don’t Have
8Chapter 7 - The Name I Crossed Out
9Chapter 8 - The Reporter Who Remembers
10Chapter 9 - The Ice Sculpture Touch
11Chapter 10 - The Friend Who Asks Too Much
12Chapter 11 - The Second Line Gambit
13Chapter 12 - The Punch Nobody Saw
14Chapter 13 - The Guilt That Never Freezes
15Chapter 14 - The Kiss That Never Lands
16Chapter 15 - The Question Only a Five-Year-Old Asks
17Chapter 16 - The Confession That Sets a Trap
18Chapter 17 - The Afternoon of Almost Everything
19Chapter 18 - The Text That Unravels Everything
20Chapter 19 - The Trap Springs Shut
21Chapter 20 - The Breakup We Both Hate
22Chapter 21 - The Anniversary I Can’t Forget
23Chapter 22 - The Story That Breaks the Internet
24Chapter 23 - The Door I Swore I’d Never Open
25Chapter 24 - The Fight We Never Had
26Chapter 25 - The Truth About the Leak
27Chapter 26 - The Press Conference on the Ice
28Chapter 27 - The Overtime That Matters
29Epilogue
30About the Author
31The End
32About the Author
33Also by Marla Quinn
34Acknowledgements
35A Note from the Author
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