Sergeant Tim Bradford has one job: find the ghost who left seven bodies across Los Angeles and has never once been caught. The problem? He already knows her. Two months ago she walked into a bar and into his life - sharp, dangerous, and impossible to forget. Six nights. No last name. Gone before dawn. Her name is Lucy Chen. She is everything his badge stands against. And she is the one thing he can't bring himself to give up. The case is closing in. The choice is coming. When the man who never breaks the rules falls for the woman who never follows them - who breaks first?

Tim Bradford runs LA's biggest real estate empire and after a brutal, public divorce, he's decided love isn't worth it. He doesn't do soft. He doesn't do coffee. Then he meets Lucy. Nineteen, broke, working the counter of a shop two blocks from his office, completely unbothered by his reputation. He starts showing up every morning for coffee he doesn't even like. She starts looking forward to seeing him more than she'll admit. An empire built on control. A girl who won't be handled like one of his deals. A seventeen-year gap neither of them can outrun.

Isabella Reyes is a fearless EMT who's seen it all, trauma, heartbreak, and everything in between, after a childhood spent bouncing through foster homes. She's tough, sarcastic, and has zero interest in letting anyone close... until a spilled beer at O'Malley's Bar leads to a scorching one-night stand with the LAPD's most intimidating training officer, Sergeant Tim Bradford. What starts as no-strings-attached fun quickly turns into something neither of them expected. They keep running into each other, on chaotic emergency scenes, at the bar with their crews, during late-night stakeouts, and every encounter fans the flames higher. Between life-or-death calls, steamy hookups, and moments of raw vulnerability, Isabella and Tim find themselves falling hard. But both carry scars: her from a past with no safety net, him from a failed marriage and years of walls built high. As danger on the job puts Isabella in harm's way more than once, Tim's protective instincts, and his growing love, get pushed to the limit. Achievements: #1 - therookie - 01/10/2026 #1 - timbradford - 01/10/2026 #1 - bradford - 01/20/2026 #1 - nylaharper - 01/26/2026 #1 - timbradfordxox - 02/19/2026 #1 - angelalopez - 02/20/2026

Lucy and Angela are married, but nobody in the station knows besides Tim because he is Angela's best friend, and Jackson, because he is Lucy's best friend, Lucy and Angela have a 5 year old son called Leo, they adopted Leo when he was a new-born, just after they got married, The only issue...is Tim LOVES Lucy always has a ways will, what happens when Tim is Lucy's TO, when he has the power to wash her out in a breath with a single piece of paper

If someone had told Lucy Chen that one ordinary wedding would change the rest of her life...she would've laughed..after all...how much can really happen in a single day? More than either of them could have imagined.

A slow-burn story set during Season 1 of The Rookie. Rookie officer Lucy Chen becomes a police officer for a fresh new start after having a brutal breakup with her five year old son, Dylan, father. Meanwhile her assigned training officer, Tim Bradford is dealing with problems of his own with his, Isabel, and raising his six year old daughter, Evelyn. Things between Lucy and Tim starts to get complicated when they find out their children are in the same class and become close friends.

Lucy and Tim are secretly dating.... What will happen?

Aurora Horizon is a small town on the coastline of California. It's got gorgeous beaches, beautiful hikes with views meant to be photographed, and Aurielle Point, the gorgeous cliff named after the town founder's one true love. The current mayor-and most eligible bachelor-is Tim Bradford, who has lived here all his life, apart from when he served in the army. For years, Tim's friends have been trying to set him up with every new arrival to the town, but he has been focused completely on his job as the mayor and helping his mom at her market. Until Lucy Chen moves to Aurora Horizon, and his whole "I don't need love" act dies. Lucy Chen has lived in Los Angeles her whole life, working on her dreams of becoming a published author and opening a bookstore coffee shop. But she knows living in the city, it won't be nearly as easy to fulfill those dreams as in a small town. So she packs up her life and moves to Aurora Horizon, a small town on the coastline of California in the Imperial area. Lucy moves into the house in the town that she inherited a few years ago after her grandmother passed away and makes friends almost immediately when her car breaks down outside of the coffee shop, Horizon Brew and Co. Where she meets Angela Lopez and the mayor, Tim Bradford. Over time she works on her novel and makes more and more friends, who always make sure she knows Tim Bradford is single but she's too busy working on her novel and dream's to date... Or so she says. Because she slowly realises that she is in love with Tim, so much so that she realizes he's the main character in her story, just with a different name. The town is trying to set them up. Tim and Lucy keep denying it, but they both have feelings. Then Lucy's bookstore opening changes everything.

Tim and Lucy are married but no one knows. one night Lucy brings up the fact she wants a baby which shocks Tim. (read the introduction for more information)

Lucy Chen has a 6 year old daughter named Aria but the father is Tim Bradford but he doesn't know. The two of them, 6 years ago, had a one night stand on an undercover mission.