Rocky Start

Author: Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer Listening Length: 11h 50m

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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T he forest became quiet as I stood there, balanced on one foot. The good news: I hadn’t been killed immediately by an explosion because I hadn’t broken the wire since I’d spotted it a fraction of a second before my right foot touched it. My momentum, plus my fifty-pound backpack, caused me to stretch the wire, but my combat-honed, peace-dulled instincts stopped me before breaking it. I remained frozen in place, foot a couple of inches above the forest floor pressing against the wire, and considered my next move.

The bad news was that I was going to have to do something about this.

Looking left and right, I saw that the wire extended to trees on either side, went through green metal eyebolts screwed into the trees, made turns, and continued on as far as I could see, which explained why there’d been no big bang. It was an alarm, not an ambush.

Chapter 1 26:17
Chapter 2 14:24
Chapter 3 16:08
Chapter 4 08:17
Chapter 5 09:05
Chapter 6 12:33
Chapter 7 07:19
Chapter 8 09:56
Chapter 9 06:05
Chapter 10 15:36
Chapter 11 09:34
Chapter 12 10:22
Chapter 13 14:00
Chapter 14 09:33
Chapter 15 12:49
Chapter 16 16:18
Chapter 17 07:31
Chapter 18 05:00
Chapter 19 08:41
Chapter 20 06:09
Chapter 21 14:55
Chapter 22 12:30
Chapter 23 15:56
Chapter 24 13:19
Chapter 25 12:48
Chapter 26 07:13
Chapter 27 07:56
Chapter 28 02:36
Chapter 29 16:35
Chapter 30 12:11
Chapter 31 25:45
Chapter 32 23:55
Chapter 33 19:01
Chapter 34 23:48
Chapter 35 36:34
Chapter 36 09:01
Chapter 37 13:55
Chapter 38 03:10
Chapter 39 04:55
Chapter 40 06:14
Chapter 41 04:19
Chapter 42 03:10
Chapter 43 08:02
Chapter 44 13:44
Chapter 45 09:52
Chapter 46 20:52
Chapter 47 02:41
Chapter 48 05:50
Chapter 49 07:32
Chapter 50 12:06
Chapter 51 03:09
Chapter 52 11:10
Chapter 53 10:58
Chapter 54 14:25
Chapter 55 03:45
Chapter 56 09:41
Chapter 57 06:46
Chapter 58 06:33
Chapter 59 03:42
Chapter 60 01:16
Chapter 61 02:23
Chapter 62 01:45
Chapter 63 02:03
Chapter 64 02:18
Chapter 65 02:40
Chapter 66 04:00
Chapter 67 01:58
Chapter 68 01:07
Chapter 69 04:34
Chapter 70 08:43
Chapter 71 03:54
Chapter 72 07:00

Rocky Start

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