Rocky Start

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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CHAPTER 9

M ax walked back in, trouble if I ever saw it, but I still thought, Hello, Friend. Then I’d almost laughed when Max had looked at me after Poppy’s “no,” helpless in the face of her certainty. Welcome to the club, buddy.

It was probably foolhardy of me to have invited him to dinner, but he had helped us, and his dog was hurt, and there hadn’t been anything in his wallet that linked him to Junior, like a keycard to the same hotel or something, and he probably wasn’t going to kill us, so I said, “Dinner will be ready in a minute.”

He looked down at Maggs and sighed again, and I knew he was bowing to the inevitable.