Let's be clear right now, I'm in the bag for baseball
romances. I'm in the bag, in general, for sports
romances, but baseball is my personal favorite sport and
so those tick tons of boxes. Beyond the bodies of the
athletes (because whoah, am I right?), I adore the idea
of people who are super disciplined, super passionate and
—let's be honest—super egotistical on some
level
finding the person who makes them the best versions of
all of that. I read more of this subgenre than almost any
other, and I adore it. I read Katie Rose's first Boys
of Summer book a while ago and so I've been in the
can for the Bad Boys of Baseball series in
particular for a
little bit. Just
like the others, THE HEAT IS ON focuses on the New Jersey
Sonics, a MLB team out of Trenton who are known as the
class clowns of the league. They're good, but they're raw
and goofy. Getting traded to the Sonics, in Rose's world,
is the last step before retirement.
In our story, Connor Jackson was once a hot commodity on
the baseball market. He grew up in New Jersey and has now
come home for one last gasp at the World Series before he
retires. He's charged with leadership in the locker room,
which he is
seriously averse to at the beginning. His
highest priority is getting back the girl who got away,
Tracy Coleman.
Tracy and Connor parted on good terms in college, but
she's never stopped pining for him either. In the
interim, however, she married a complete jerk and
has some kiddos with him. She left the man but of
course still has to deal with him and does so balancing
her insane life as a single mama. She's closed herself
off to all men, so Connor has his work cut out for him.
The baseball as a game isn't super present in THE HEAT IS
ON, it's
more
team dynamics and such. But that's okay because there is
a whole lot else going on with families and vulnerability
and learning, for both of them, how to be family.
THE HEAT IS ON is recommended for folks who like sweet
stories
with kiddos, adults finding their (delayed) happily ever
afters, and baseball fans alike.
Perfect for readers of Joanna Blake and Sawyer Bennett,
hailed as “charming, sexy, and smart” by Lauren Layne, the
Bad Boys of Baseball series from award-winning author Katie
Rose heats up as a homegrown baseball star returns to snag
the one that got away.
When veteran catcher Connor Jackson gets traded to the New
Jersey Sonics, he welcomes the opportunity to possibly cap
his career with a World Series ring in his home state. But
there’s another reason Connor is glad things have come full
circle. In pursuit of hardball glory, he left behind his
college sweetheart, the one girl he could never forget.
Seeing her again stirs up long-lost desires . . . and this
time, he’s determined not to strike out.
A divorced mother of four, Tracy Coleman no longer aspires
to gossip-mag glam—but she’ll make an exception for a date
with Connor. Their chemistry is hotter than ever, and being
alone with him is more seductive than she anticipated. Who
could blame her for leaving out a little detail like the
kids? Now all she has to do is come clean and convince the
man of her dreams that they—Connor, Tracy, and her
children—have a future together.
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