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The Rookie's Secret
A Holiday Homecoming, Public Humiliation Sports RomanceBy Reese Calloway
Length8h 28m
About this audiobook
The facility smells like turf, antiseptic, and the faint ghost of someone else's victory — that particular scent of a place where men have bled and celebrated and failed.
*You're in my spot.*
Grant Wallace stands over the bench in full pads with a smirk painted on like part of the uniform, faded rose tattoos flexing on his forearms. Riley Montgomery stands up slowly, feeling the pull in a surgically repaired left knee, and goes to find a locker at the far end of the row.
The nameplate reads R. MONTGOMERY, QB, in plastic still sharp at the edges. He runs his thumb across the letters and catches himself doing it.
Morning light comes through the high windows. He pulls on number twelve, the same number he wore at Ohio State before the injury nearly ended everything, and reaches for his helmet, and his right hand shakes.
That is the secret. Not the knee, which everybody has read about. The hand.
Dahlia Torres works in the building and is the first person to notice, and the second thing she does after noticing is not tell anybody, which is a decision she is going to have to defend to people with more authority than she has.
What follows: a hand he cannot trust, footage rewound twice, media training deliberately sabotaged, a cafeteria after the lights go down, a phone call overheard by accident, a date nobody is calling a date, a practice that changes the depth chart, and a book he could not hide.
*Then let's not know together.*
He kissed her, right there in the window, in front of the empty chairs.
Contemporary sports romance set across a holiday season, a comeback quarterback with a tremor nobody has diagnosed, a woman in the building who chooses him over her own position, a locker room where a rookie's weakness is currency, explicit scenes, and a happy ending that neither of them takes for granted.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 28 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Prologue
3Chapter 1 - The Hand I Couldn’t Trust
4Chapter 2 - The Footage I Rewound Twice
5Chapter 3 - The Media Training I Sabotaged
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6Chapter 4 - The Cafeteria After Lights Out
7Chapter 5 - The Phone Call I Overheard
8Chapter 6 - The Date I Don’t Call a Date
9Chapter 7 - The Practice That Changed Everything
10Chapter 8 - The Book I Couldn’t Hide
11Chapter 9 - The Night I Told Her Everything
12Chapter 10 - The Brother I Borrowed
13Chapter 11 - The Gala Where We Went Public
14Chapter 12 - The Morning After the Announcement
15Chapter 13 - The Specialist Who Knew
16Chapter 14 - The Leak That Sank Us
17Chapter 15 - The Ex Who Came Back
18Chapter 16 - The Game I Broke
19Chapter 17 - The Phone Call I Didn’t Take
20Chapter 18 - The Decision That Broke Us
21Chapter 19 - The Walk I Had to Take
22Chapter 20 - The Press Conference I Stole
23Chapter 21 - The Surgery That Scared Me More
24Chapter 22 - The Investigation That Cleared Us
25Chapter 23 - The Season After
26Chapter 24 - The Future I Didn’t Plan
27Epilogue
28The End
29About the Author
30Also by Reese Calloway
31Acknowledgements
32A Note from the Author
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