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.