One Fan Only

Real, Actual, Not Pretend

By: Joan Amanda Raymond

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Nora Calloway has been running the math for four years.
Three internships. Four cities. A 2019 CR-V with a paid-off title and a back seat that doubles as a mobile office. She’s twenty-six, she’s broke in the specific way of someone who is very good at her job and has not yet been paid for it, and she is three months into an unpaid internship with a minor league hockey team in Jacksonville when she makes the most practical decision of her life.
Garrett Hollis is the Director of Communications for the Jacksonville Icemen. He is twenty-nine, precise, excellent at his job, and recently arrived in a new city with a rented truck and a plane ticket someone didn’t use. He has a second bedroom. She needs a room. The math is simple.
The terms they negotiate are clear: real, actual, not pretend. Temporary, until she lands the job she’s been building toward or he moves up to the next affiliate. Clean lines. No complications.
The lines don’t stay clean.
What follows is seven months of two people who are extremely good at saying true things managing to not say the truest one—while sharing a kitchen, a broadcast room, a Riverwalk, and a private language that neither of them officially names.

ONE FAN ONLY is a Heat Level 5 adult contemporary romance set in the world of ECHL hockey. It is the story of a woman who organizes everything into columns and a man who has been keeping a list since November, and what happens when the column becomes a conclusion.