The Rock

By: Harris, Andrew J.

Cole Rankin was fourteen when a house fire took his mother, his father, and his seven-year-old sister Birdie while he stood in the frozen yard four feet from her window. The volunteer company from Dutch Creek, North Carolina did everything right. They were six miles out. It took them eleven minutes.
Eight years later he reports to Randall's Island - the training ground every firefighter in New York City calls the Rock.
He has spent every one of those years walking toward it: the Tuesdays with Hop Calloway, a retired Brooklyn chief who buried his own partner on a traded tour; the wreck on Sawmill Road; the badge his aunt Shelby pinned over his heart with one rule attached - come home every time.
On his first tour with Ladder 183, the tones drop at 3:07 in the morning. A frame house. A family of three inside. A child at a second-floor window.
He goes in for the boy. He goes back for the mother. Then he learns the father is still in there, pinned under a collapsed staircase with no mask and no timeand that in the entire inventory of the department there is exactly one piece of equipment that fits a human face, and Cole Rankin is wearing it.
THE ROCK is a novel about what a man owes, who sets the price, and the signal a fire department sounds when one of its own does not come home.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HGGN3MXW
• ISBN13: 9798194809271
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"