A baseball romance that delivers on spice and feelings.

Clarke has been cheated on by her fiancée, and takes it as a sign to finally move away from her overbearing parents and the town she's always lived in. She moves to a small town with a new baseball franchise team to take on a role working their social media. Meanwhile Soren is hoping for the chance to reset with a new team and focus on his career, following yet another media scandal. Just a shame his cute new neighbour is also a new colleague...

These two have instant chemistry, right from the hilarious and (literally) steamy first time they meet. And that chemistry grows as the story progresses and they get to know each other more. I loved how their feelings built over time as they got to know each other more.

The supporting cast of characters are great - it's definitely setting up to be a fun series with the rest of the team. Any decent team sports romance will always have an element of found family amongst the players, but I adored Clarke's found family as she got the confidence to make new friends that she could be herself with.

Clarke's journey to find herself was great to read. Starting out as someone who was only known for being the daughter of rich people, and growing to a place of having work, hobbies, friends and love. And swear words. Can't forget the freedom of swearing!

There is a lot of secondary queer rep in this story, and it was included very naturally. Soren's nibling, like the rest of his family, is amazing.

I'll admit that I had been expecting more full-on spice scenes, but that's very much my expectations rather than a fault with the book. There was a wide variety of steaminess happening, but also quite a few times where it was just the build up, or references to things having happened.

Also it's possible I'd have got more out of this book if I liked coffee...

All in all I would definitely recommend this to anyone who enjoys sports romances - particularly if you're looking for a change from all the hockey ones!

Thank you to the author for the free review copy. All thoughts are my own.