Mature
Length8h 35m
About this audiobook
*You're not supposed to be here.*
Nate Gallagher says it to a man in a worn leather jacket standing on his baseball field with a press badge and a notebook, while Leo Hart, his star pitcher, backs toward the dugout, opening and closing the webbing of his glove like he is trying to catch something invisible.
Connor Walsh writes for the Hollow Creek Gazette. He has a press pass, a release form signed by the district superintendent, and a notebook full of numbers: Leo's ERA down nearly a full point since last spring, a cleanup hitter batting .412 after hitting .289 the year before. He wants the season feature. Nate wants him off the field.
Nate does not get a veto. The principal who signed off on the access is Maya Kowalski, his sister, who has spent her whole life trusting people first and checking afterwards.
What Connor eventually finds is not a training program.
It is a pitcher who says throwing hard feels like *a rubber band inside me that's about to snap*, and whose father says he is faking. It is an assistant coach, Derek Chen, crew-cut and permanently smirking, who has already worked out that the school promotes from within. And it is a name Nate has not spoken aloud in more than a decade.
*Jamie Tran.* A second baseman with the fastest hands Nate ever saw. He was assaulted outside a bar on Willamette Street and did not survive it, and Nate packed his clothes into boxes because Jamie's mother was too broken to do it, and then built an entire life on never saying what Jamie had been to him.
When the team bus dies on the way to a game, Connor offers a trade in front of a busload of teenagers: *One honest answer. Then I make the call.*
After that come photographs, a resignation letter on a desk, and a school board that is going to hear about all of it.
A closed-door MM sports romance set around a small-town high-school baseball program, about grief carried in silence, a reporter who will not settle for the easy story, and a man deciding whether he intends to keep quiet for the rest of his life.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Lie I Built My Life On
3Chapter 2 - The Story Behind the Story
4Chapter 3 - The Bus Ride from Hell
5Chapter 4 - One Honest Answer
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6Chapter 5 - The Podcast Trap
7Chapter 6 - The Coffee That Changed Everything
8Chapter 7 - A Father’s Wrath
9Chapter 8 - The Video We Never Saw
10Chapter 9 - Late Night at the Field
11Chapter 10 - The Truth About Jamie
12Chapter 11 - The First Kiss
13Chapter 12 - Falling Fast
14Chapter 13 - Sunday Secrets
15Chapter 14 - The Sister’s Confrontation
16Chapter 15 - Derek’s Poison
17Chapter 16 - The Championship Pressure
18Chapter 17 - The Photograph
19Chapter 18 - The Threat Rises
20Chapter 19 - Derek’s Ultimatum
21Chapter 20 - The Breakup
22Chapter 21 - The Lie Wins
23Chapter 22 - Leaving Hollow Creek
24Chapter 23 - The Letter I Never Sent
25Chapter 24 - The Board Hearing
26Chapter 25 - The Livestream He Watches
27Chapter 26 - The Drive Back
28Chapter 27 - The Door I Swore I’d Never Open
29Chapter 28 - The Promise We Keep
30Epilogue
31About the Author
32The End
33About the Author
34Also by Casey Bell
35Acknowledgements
36A Note from the Author
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