The Coach's Bargain
A Forced Proximity, Marriage of Convenience Sports RomanceBy Reese Calloway
Length8h 20m
About this audiobook
Fourteen hundred people in an old building, one playoff game, and about two seconds between a bad pass and the rest of somebody's life.
A puck. Scuffed black rubber on white ice, tracing a lazy arc toward the corner boards. Declan O'Rourke tracks it the way he tracks everything, with a predator's patience, waiting for the gap.
The arena roars around him. Boots stomping aluminium bleachers, breath fogging above the glass. Playoff hockey in a northern town means spring still clinging to winter's coat and ice that has gone soft and rutted and treacherous, which suits a team that plays mean.
*O'Rourke! Cycle it!*
He hears it, but his eyes are already past the puck and onto Finn on the far wing. His brother taps his stick once, twice, eager, almost frantic, and Declan feeds him the pass. Finn takes it in stride, because that is his gift: a hummingbird on blades, all lean acceleration and sudden shifts.
Declan sees the hit coming before Finn does.
Everything in this book proceeds from that half-second, and from the decision Declan makes about what to write down afterwards.
Alex arrives as the person responsible for making sure that decision was recorded correctly, in a shared office with two desks and no door, which is the worst possible place to conduct a disagreement and the only place either of them is honest.
What follows: a seat neither man feels he earned, a headache that will not be ignored, a stand taken in a boardroom, a phone call somebody refuses to make, the truth sitting between two lines of a report, and a leak nobody can plug.
*I messed up. I lied. I blocked your baseline updates and kept you on the ice when I should've sat you.*
*It's not fair.*
*But nothing worth doing ever is.*
Declan has to decide whether the brother he has protected since they were children is worth the career, the room and the man he has only just admitted he wants.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Prologue
3Chapter 1 - The Line I Crossed
4Chapter 2 - The Seat I Didn’t Earn
5Chapter 3 - The Shared Office of Secrets
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6Chapter 4 - The Headache He Can’t Ignore
7Chapter 5 - The Boardroom Stand
8Chapter 6 - The Phone Call He Wouldn’t Make
9Chapter 7 - The Truth Between the Lines
10Chapter 8 - The Leak They Can’t Plug
11Chapter 9 - The Brother Who Hates You
12Chapter 10 - The Kiss in the Equipment Room
13Chapter 11 - The Price of Being Seen
14Chapter 12 - The Commitment We Make
15Chapter 13 - The Rival Inside
16Chapter 14 - The Recording Hank Did Not See Coming
17Chapter 15 - The Stick Swung in Anger
18Chapter 16 - The Father’s Legacy
19Chapter 17 - The Mother Who Stayed
20Chapter 18 - The Speech That Changed Everything
21Chapter 19 - The One-Game Suspension
22Chapter 20 - The Lawsuit That Exposed Everything
23Chapter 21 - The Playoff Run Begins
24Chapter 22 - The Counterattack on the Ice
25Chapter 23 - The Grand Gesture That Cost Everything
26Chapter 24 - The Championship Overtime
27Chapter 25 - The Lake at Sunset
28Epilogue
29The End
30About the Author
31Also by Reese Calloway
32Acknowledgements
33A Note from the Author
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