The Rookie's Confession
A Grumpy-Sunshine Pairing, Fake Relationship Sports RomanceBy Reese Calloway
Length7h 8m
About this audiobook
The clasps on Lee Bancroft's station jacket have been loose for three weeks. He spends the whole bus ride pinching them shut and letting them spring open, over and over, like a prayer he does not quite believe in.
Seven stops on Grey Harbor Transit Route 7, then a half-mile jog up Harbor Road past the lobster shacks still shuttered for breakfast. He is ten minutes late, which in firehouse math might as well be an hour.
Captain Declan O'Shea is at the front bumper of Engine 5, arms crossed, grey eyes on the digital clock above the turnout board. He does not raise his voice. *Then you know what 06:45 means.* Lee is on gear maintenance. Full inventory. Report to Chen.
Lee is twenty-four and already running out of chances. He was awake at three in the morning with smoke in his lungs and a child's voice in his ears, the same nightmare every time, the ceiling coming down in sheets of flame. His father's voice comes with it: *You're a fisherman, Leo. You've got the hands for it and the blood for it, and you're gonna throw that away to go play hero?*
Jake Orton plants himself in Lee's path and calls him princess loudly enough for half the station to hear. Declan catalogues details the way other men collect baseball cards: the way you hold a tool, the tremor in your hand when you are scared, the lie hiding behind your teeth.
On the memorial board is a name. John Estrada, twenty-nine, a wife and a daughter. The paper mill fire, three stories, chemical storage, five firefighters trapped and one who did not come out. Estrada carried a child to the ladder himself, handed her down, and went back in for the foreman. Declan was the man on the ground who caught her.
And somewhere in this station is a phone with messages on it about a hose coupling on Engine 5, and what gets added to a man's balance if he will not loosen it.
An MM firefighter romance about a rookie who has built his life on one version of the worst night of it, a captain slow to trust for reasons carved into a board in his own hallway, and the difference between freezing and being broken; closed-door.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length7 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 - The Lie I Built My Life On
2Chapter 2 - The Captain’s Rule
3Chapter 3 - The Weight of a Ladder
4Chapter 4 - A Whisper in the Haze
5Chapter 5 - The Tide Pulls Back
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6Chapter 6 - The Ripple Before the Wave
7Chapter 7 - The Regatta
8Chapter 8 - A Quiet Harbour
9Chapter 9 - The Night I Almost Said It
10Chapter 10 - The Near Miss
11Chapter 11 - The Leap (Midpoint)
12Chapter 12 - The New World
13Chapter 13 - The Shadows Return
14Chapter 14 - The Lie That Lives in Me
15Chapter 15 - A Crack in the Shield
16Chapter 16 - The Test
17Chapter 17 - The Fire I Cannot Outrun
18Chapter 18 - The Lonely Recovery
19Chapter 19 - The Cost of Silence
20Chapter 20 - The Truth We Burn For
21Chapter 21 - The Grand Gesture
22Chapter 22 - The Embers of Trust
23Chapter 23 - The Rookie’s Confession
24About the Author
25The End
26About the Author
27Also by Reese Calloway
28Acknowledgements
29A Note from the Author
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