Overview

So... you think you want to be a cop? Come for a year-long ride-along adventure with Vermont's 'Green-and-Gold' state troopers and other public safety professionals in this policing and family drama from novelist J. Kilburn. Bruce Sutton thinks he's picked up a cool summer job when he's hired to fill an auxiliary trooper slot at the Vermont State Police. His employers have special plans for their new hire... but they haven't told the new trainee about that yet. Things get even more complicated when Bruce meets his hot new training officer, a well-regarded policing professional with a few secrets of her own.... It's going to be an action-packed and revealing ROOKIE YEAR! This policing and family drama explores the excitement, joys, and pitfalls of young love and new careers as a couple from a small New England college town navigates the adventure-filled years between Teen Angst and Adulting. Filled with harrowing law enforcement experiences, detailed police tactics training, and unanticipated romantic drama, it's going to be an incredible Rookie Year for both the new couple and the new cop. Rookie Year: A Novel would be a great book for readers who also enjoy television crime and policing dramas.

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"""...a compelling journey through the highs and lows of both a new couple and a new cop, certain to please fans of crime-centric dramas and family stories alike."" 5 Stars! - K. C. Finn for Readers' Favorite ""Author J. Kilburn has created some incredibly likable and identifiable characters.... The entire story has a warmth and charm about it...."" 5 Stars! - Grant Leishman for Readers' Favorite ""Kilburn has a knack for whipping up tremendously dramatic scenes, accompanying them with a robust sense of humor."" 5 Stars! - Keith Mbuya for Readers' Favorite ""Kilburn delivers script-ready dialogue that at times is laugh out loud funny...."" - Peggy Kurkowski for Independent Book Review"

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J. Kilburn is the author of three self-published novels, as well as one feature-length investigative newspaper article published in his community's local newspaper. Reviewers have compared Kilburn's narrative style to those of Hunter S. Thompson and Nell Zink. His subjects and almost cinematic descriptions of setting have earned his works comparison to movies and television shows like Sons of Anarchy, Tin Star and Twin Peaks.Kilburn lives a quiet and private life on the shore of America's sixth Great Lake. He has lived and worked in Vermont, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Minnesota. During these travels, Kilburn has dabbled in law enforcement, private security, emergency medicine, truck driving, and horse-logging. Other occupations have included at-risk youth mentor, big-city process server, park ranger, industrial wastewater treatment operator, and plastics processing machinery mechanic. Along the way, he's pedaled to 14,000 feet above sea-level in a major bicycle race, been marooned overnight on a deserted island, ridden a motorcycle from Chicago to Thunder Bay, and hiked Vermont's highest peaks to watch sunsets on both the longest and coldest days of the year. When not at work he and his wife enjoy life around a little urban farm complete with greenhouse, garden, and mini-barn. Their current flock is composed of four chickens and a cat named Sierra Feral. Ardelia Huntress has a Master's Degree in Reading Instruction. She has worked as a teacher and seamstress, and currently manages a retail clothing and tailoring shop. After a life-long interest in art, she recently completed an introductory art class at a nearby college. She lives, works, sews and sketches in Vermont.

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