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The Rookie's Enemy
A Small-Town Secrets, Closeted Star RomantasyBy Robin Vale
Length7h 21m
About this audiobook
Finn O'Shea is sixteen, standing on the grass while the garage burns, his mother's fingers digging past the flannel into the muscle of his shoulder. His father is in there. His father does not scream. He shouts *Finn, get back, get back* - and then he stops.
*He told you to get back. He told you to stay safe. You want to make his last order mean nothing?*
Six years later Finn walks into Station 7 with his father's silver badge in his pocket, the number pressed into the metal like a brand, and finds a locker at the end of the row with his surname on a strip of masking tape in somebody's impatient handwriting. No first name. No welcome.
Chief Cross looks up from the desk, and his face does something complicated before it settles into a nod. *Finn O'Shea. You look like him.*
Behind the station, coiling hose with the practiced economy of a man who has made the same motion for years, is Garrett Cross. The chief's son. Grey eyes that take Finn in the way you check a piece of equipment for faults, and a twist of shiny scar tissue running from wrist to elbow. He was on the truck the night Finn's father died. He is the one who recovered the body. Finn has never thanked him, because he has never worked out how.
Garrett's entire welcome is *Gear's in locker seven. Don't touch mine.*
Leo Park is friendlier. Quick grin, a boot under one arm, a rag older than either of them. Same crew, same rotation, and he calls Finn the O'Shea kid exactly the way everyone else does.
Leo also had a brother. Ethan is dead, Patrick O'Shea went back into a fire to save a dog and disobeyed orders doing it, and Leo has been living off his brother's life insurance payout ever since. Three weeks before Finn ever set foot in that station, a prepaid phone bought over a convenience store counter started sending texts.
A closed-door MM firefighter romance set in a harbour town, about a probie, a lieutenant who was there on the worst night of his life, and a line in a logbook that never got signed.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length7 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Prologue
3Chapter 1 - The Bell That Rings for the Dead
4Chapter 2 - The Fire I Didn’t Start
5Chapter 3 - The Lie My Mother Told
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6Chapter 4 - The Tank That Whistles
7Chapter 5 - The Scallop Shuck
8Chapter 6 - The Floor That Gave Way
9Chapter 7 - The Log I Forgot to Sign
10Chapter 8 - The Push That Broke Us
11Chapter 9 - The Lie I Told to Save Him
12Chapter 10 - The Closet That Tasted of Smoke
13Chapter 11 - The Boat That Rocked Us
14Chapter 12 - The Festival of Broken Promises
15Chapter 13 - The Heart That Burned Alone
16Chapter 14 - The Vote That Nearly Sank Us
17Chapter 15 - The Sabotage I Let Happen
18Chapter 16 - The Guest Who Knew Too Much
19Chapter 17 - The Tank That Failed
20Chapter 18 - The Black Moment I Built
21Chapter 19 - The Truth That Set Me Free
22Chapter 20 - The Confession I Never Saw Coming
23Chapter 21 - The Grand Gesture I Had to Make
24Chapter 22 - The Bell That Rings for the Future
25Chapter 23 - The Harbor We Trusted
26Epilogue
27The End
28About the Author
29Also by Robin Vale
30Acknowledgements
31A Note from the Author
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