On My Call

Two years after a steering error put her crew into a bridge piling and cost a teammate her hand, Tatum Vaughan rigs boats at four in the morning and never touches a coxswain's seat. Rutledge's men's eight is nine weeks from being cut, out of options, and their stroke seat — infuriating, enormous Kellan Ortiz — won't stop asking. She names her price: her tuition paid, and total authority in the boat. What she doesn't know is what Kellan has been hiding in his locker for two years.