Daphne Brink doesn’t follow baseball, but watching “America’s Snoozefest” certainly beats sitting at home in the days after she signs her divorce papers. After one too many ballpark beers, she heckles Carolina Battery player Chris Kepler, who quickly proves there might actually be a little crying in baseball. Horrified, Daphne reaches out to Chris on social media to apologize . . . but forgets to identify herself as his heckler in her message.
Chris doesn’t usually respond to random fans on social media, but he’s grieving and fragile after an emotionally turbulent few months. When a DM from “Duckie” catches his eye, he impulsively messages back. Duckie is sweet, funny, and seems to understand him in a way no one else does.
Daphne isn’t sure how much longer she can keep lying to Chris, especially as she starts working with the team in real life and their feelings for each other deepen. When he finds out the truth, will it be three strikes, she’s out?
Release Date: Jun 18, 2024
Heat Level: Sensual
Publisher: Penguin Group
Imprint: Berkley
Price: $10.99
Daphne and her best friend attend a baseball game to cheer her up. She has been feeling down after her divorce, and a night out is bound to help her feel better. Maybe she should have laid off the beers because she ended up heckling the star player, causing him to have an emotional outburst in the middle of the game.
A sobered-up Daphne realizes her big mistake and ends up apologizing to him via ‘DM’ later without exactly explaining who she is. Now, she is working with the team and has to encounter him every day. The only problem is that he hates her because she is the heckler. How can she get him to like the real her?
The beginning of the relationship is very rocky. Daphne doesn’t know how to confess the truth to Chris. I really wish she had come clean sooner. It would have spared the drama and the ultimate pain. However, it was very fun watching them fall in love twice. They connect online and then finally in person.
I really didn’t know what to expect going into this one. Honestly, I’m not the biggest sports romance lover. Maybe it’s because I don’t actively watch sports a lot, though I find them entertaining. The author does a good job of meshing sports and romance without neglecting either.
Chris is the real reason I enjoyed the storyline. He is a masculine guy who has a lot of issues and is somehow very vulnerable and kind. The author really does a good job of peeling back the layers of his character. Daphne is the perfect match for him, as she has been hurt and deserves a loving man.
Overall, a nice read for sports romance lovers. I would pick up another book by the author.
~ Samantha
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