The Captain's Mistake
A Second Chance, Runaway Bride Sports RomanceBy Harper Nash
Length8h 27m
About this audiobook
Liam Blackwood has been icing a hamstring in secret for a week. He fills the ice baths at midnight when the training ground is empty. He keeps his warmup runs at seventy percent and lets his touch do the work. On match day he locks himself in the end cubicle, pulls up the leg of his shorts, presses a towel-wrapped ice pack into the muscle and counts. *Ten minutes. Just give me ten minutes.*
The phone in his kit bag has three hairline fractures across the screen because his daughter Chloe dropped it during one of her dizzy spells. He has not replaced the glass. Every spare pound goes to a private clinic in Birmingham, where Chloe's treatment costs six grand a week and his playing contract is the only thing paying for it.
Then the sixty-third minute happens. A West Ham midfielder's studs catch his standing ankle, he goes down hard, and the leg that reaches him first belongs to the wrong doctor.
Not old Rossi in his tweed jacket. The new physio. *Where does it hurt?* *Nowhere.* *You grabbed your right hamstring when you fell.*
Her name is Elena, and the club doctor she replaced, Alan Rossi, is her father. She has hung her own framed certification on the office wall and told the whole squad how it works: you come to me with an injury, I treat it; you hide one, and I find out. She could end Liam's season with a single line in a report.
Instead she agrees to treat him off the books. *No records. No paperwork. No Declan.*
Declan Shaw wants the armband. He has his kids' names tattooed on his forearms, a Yorkshire accent he thickens for the lads, a fresh stack of betting slips in the bin, and a press officer called Karen Mills who owes him a favour from Wolverhampton. When he photographs Liam and Elena with their heads bent together over two coffees, the picture reaches her within the hour.
And underneath all of it is the thing Liam has not said out loud in three years: he was driving the car, his father was in it, and so was Chloe.
A second-chance sports romance set around a lower-table football club, about an injury hidden too long, a doctor who puts her licence on the table, and a man who has to stop paying for everyone alone. Closed-door.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 - The Lie I Built My Life On
2Chapter 2 - The Door I Swore I’d Never Open
3Chapter 3 - The Accusation No One Speaks Aloud
4Chapter 4 - The Diagnosis I Can’t Outrun
5Chapter 5 - The Obligation That Drowns Me
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6Chapter 6 - The Face in the Crowd
7Chapter 7 - The Coffee I Should Have Refused
8Chapter 8 - The Defence I Never Expected
9Chapter 9 - The Kiss That Rewrites Everything
10Chapter 10 - The Hospital Vending Machine
11Chapter 11 - The Treatment I Can’t Afford to Lose
12Chapter 12 - The Commitment That Costs Everything
13Chapter 13 - The Fugitive’s Bargain
14Chapter 14 - The Body That Betrays Me
15Chapter 15 - The Match We Play for a Future
16Chapter 16 - The Fallout of a Broken Promise
17Chapter 17 - The Pillow Talk We Never Had
18Chapter 18 - The Hearing That Exposes Everything
19Chapter 19 - The Absolution I Never Believed In
20Chapter 20 - The Rebuilding of Trust
21Chapter 21 - The Testimonial That Honors the Wounded
22Chapter 22 - The Conversation I’ve Been Avoiding
23Chapter 23 - The Grave That Holds the Past
24Chapter 24 - The Beginning We Didn’t Know We Deserved
25Epilogue
26The End
27About the Author
28Also by Harper Nash
29Acknowledgements
30A Note from the Author
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