Rocky Start

Rocky Start

Author: Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer Listening Length: 11h 50m
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Think of the movie RED. Retired covert operatives living in a small town in the Smoky Mountains. What could go wrong? From the bestselling authors of Agnes and the Hitman and the Liz Danger series. Rose Malone’s landlord and employer, Ozzie Oswald, just died, and now she has no idea if she has a job or if she and her ...

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CHAPTER 2

I headed to the post office with my dog, Maggs, to pick up the package that my old boss had sent to this oddly named town of Rocky Start and to get away from the four women and the SUV.

Maggs and I had been shadow-walking just off the Appalachian Trail for months, following along beside it through the woods while avoiding the people on the main trail as much as possible, and today we’d headed for the town Herc had sent my boots to. It was a pretty little place, off to itself in the woods, spread out for a half mile covering a flat bend in the river away from the highway. When we got into town, I heard some shouting from a store, and then a guy stumbled backwards out of the door, dragging a crazy lady swinging a black statue. Parked across the street was a big black Mercedes with the subtle, but important, modifications indicating it was armored, its windows tinted and engine running.

All of that seemed odd, but none of it was my problem.