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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A t ten, I made sure the shop door was locked, stuffed Max’s washed clothes, including his now-mended t-shirt and sleeping bag, in the dryer—needle and thread I can do, even the heavy duty stuff—and put the dried dishes away. Then I got my antique paregoric bottle with the doll’s head on top and my glue and my big box of junk that was Poppy’s old toys and old jewelry and oddments from the things that Ozzie had brought back from his trips for the shop, carried it all into the kitchen, and put it on the table and tried to think of what was next. An idea about the real me that I should glue to a bottle.

The only idea I had was to go up and knock on Max’s door. At least some ill-advised sex with a stranger would give me something that wasn’t Poppy or Ozzie to stick to the damn bottle.

And that was when my phone buzzed with a text from Lian.