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.

Policing and Family Drama / Romance , 2024, 415 pages

A rookie police officer has met the Girl of his dreams and thinks he's hot on the trail of a promising law enforcement career, too. A lot can happen between starry-eyed plans and life itself, so there will to be a few rough spots along the way... including a big bump right at the start!

Bruce Sutton, the boy, grew up in Ontario, with all the normal dreams: fame, fortune, a career in the NHL, maybe a Corvette in the driveway.... The young man went off to college in the States, and somewhere along the way there in New England he gave up all those dreams for better things: Romance, the start of a promising career in law enforcement, visions of a white picket fence with a house behind it and a station wagon in the driveway. Probably a wedding not too far away, too. Bruce Sutton, the man, thought that someday he might end up chief of police in the little Vermont college town he'd come to know and to love in. He and his romantic interest became one of those pairs that stick. Eventually, other folks thought it would probably last, so the community and then the family gave their blessing. Almost everyone assumed the young couple would start a little family unit of their own in a few years, after they'd done just a little more growing up. Of course, life is unpredictable, so those two are going to hit a few rough spots along the way, as every couple will. Including that really big bump right in the beginning....

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.