The Veteran's Secret
A Forced Proximity Sports RomanceBy Alex Rhodes
Length7h 58m
About this audiobook
*The headlights caught the deer too late.*
Jack Hutton used to be a defenseman. Now he is standing alone on the ice of an old arena at 6:47 in the morning, in a town of twelve hundred people, his right knee complaining in the specific way it has since the surgery, coaching a Single-A minor league team and trying to remember why he said yes.
Gloria Vance built the Wolves out of scrap, and she is not going to be gentle about why he is here.
*You came here because nobody else would hire you.*
She has read the reports from his last three assistant jobs. The fight, the suspension, the screaming match with a general manager. She has also handed the head job to him over the assistant who has been here four years and applied for it herself, and on his first morning Rosa Flores contradicts his system in front of the whole room. She is not wrong about the roster, either.
That part Jack can survive.
The part he cannot is nine years old, wears her mother's old Wolves hat pulled low, and has been in another fight at school. Chloe's aunt wants her back in Duluth for good, and the custody hearing is set for February, and the file says her father was absent for approximately eighteen months following her mother's death.
Lena Kovac is the sports psychologist attached to the Wolves, and she takes school referrals as well. She reads that line in the intake folder before Chloe ever walks through the door.
*I'm Lena. You can call me that if you want.*
She is not supposed to feel anything for the father of the child she is assessing. What happens next she starts, and then she ends, and neither decision makes it stop.
And Dieter Lange, the bookie who used to cover Jack's bets, has started making contact again. He has the records. He knows what Jack was doing with his money and his nights, he knows about the drinking, and there is a man who has spent six months trying to buy this hockey team and would be very glad of the leverage.
A small-town hockey romance out of the Iron Range, with a coach six months sober, an assistant coach with every reason to resent him, a nine-year-old who fights because nobody has told her the truth, and a psychologist who can see exactly which professional line she is standing on. The romance is closed-door.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length7 hrs 58 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
2Chapter 1 - The Last Check I Should Have Never Thrown
3Chapter 2 - The Wound You Can’t Tape Over
4Chapter 3 - The Penalty Box I Built for Myself
5Chapter 4 - The Pressure of the Empty Seat
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6Chapter 5 - The Shot You Take in the Dark
7Chapter 6 - The Warm Line You Can’t Cross
8Chapter 7 - The Overtime I Never Asked For
9Chapter 8 - The Ice That Looks Like Water
10Chapter 9 - The Hand You Thought Was a Fist
11Chapter 10 - The Ripple After the Break
12Chapter 11 - The Pass I Should Have Seen Coming
13Chapter 12 - The Mouth That Knows the Shape of Silence
14Chapter 13 - The Glass Between the Cheap Seats and the Ice
15Chapter 14 - The Two-Faced Rink
16Chapter 15 - The Pen That Writes the Lie
17Chapter 16 - The Sound of the Crowd When You’re Alone
18Chapter 17 - The Broken Blade You Tape Together
19Chapter 18 - The Line You Draw Through Your Own Name
20Chapter 19 - The Weight of the Empty Side of the Bed
21Chapter 20 - The Echo of the Goal That Wasn’t Called
22Chapter 21 - The Shot Heard Through the Iron Range
23Chapter 22 - The Rebound You Never Saw Coming
24Chapter 23 - The Final Face-off Before the Whistle
25Chapter 24 - The Costume We Shed in the Locker Room
26Chapter 25 - The Opening Face-off of the Rest of Our Lives
27About the Author
28The End
29About the Author
30Also by Alex Rhodes
31Acknowledgements
32A Note from the Author
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