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 46

“ W e have to be careful in Bearton,” Luke said. “There’s actual law there. It’s the other world.”

“Right.” He was referring to the world we’d been outside of when we’d been players, where normal people, or what passed for normal, lived, worked, played, and died. Where they worried about utility bills and mortgages and the price of gas while our world was, in essence, about life and death.

The two-lane highway was following the river to the left with steep slopes to the right, occasionally with blasted rock where they’d punched the original railroad through the riverbed, then widened for the road. A lot of turns, and Luke was taking the curves cautiously because, after all, we were in a minivan.