Home Run

by Heidi McLaughlin

Overview

From the New York Times bestselling author of Forever My Girl comes a sports romance with "a hot, complex hero and a gutsy, multidimensional heroine" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

I've given up everything for the chance to play major league baseball. Everything. Now I'm so close I can practically hear the crowd chanting my name. There's nothing that could take my dream away from me . . .

Unless I lose focus. And Ainsley Burke is the most beautiful, distracting woman I've ever met. When I'm with her, I can't think of anything else.

But no matter how much I want Ainsley, there's no room for love in my game plan. I can give her a quick tour of the bases, but that's it. Then I have to let her go. If she wants to think I'm a love 'em and leave 'em player, fine.

All dreams require sacrifice. I just wish this one didn't mean tearing out my own heart.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781455598281
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	09/24/2024
Series:	The Boys of Summer , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	369
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Heidi McLaughlin is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, she now lives in picturesque Vermont with her husband and two daughters. Also renting space in their home is an over-hyper beagle/Jack Russell, Buttercup, a Highland West/mini schnauzer, Jill, and her brother, Racicot. When she's isn't writing stories, you'll find her sitting court-side at her daughters' basketball games.

Editorial Reviews

★ 04/17/2017
McLaughlin knocks it out of the park with her second Boys of Summer sports contemporary (after Third Base). Ainsley Burke, raised by a single mother who’s always warned her daughter about the danger of falling for an athlete, has sworn not to date the baseball players who train in her Florida hometown. Then Cooper Bailey, a player for the fictional Boston Renegades, comes to town. While on a media day at the zoo where Ainsley works, Cooper asks Ainsley for her number. She refuses, but her coworker slips him the info, and Ainsley and Cooper begin a red-hot relationship. Soon, though, Cooper’s game starts to worsen—and his overbearing, obnoxious father blames Ainsley, leaving the lovers to make some tough choices. This novel goes above and beyond the typical sports romance with a hot, complex hero and a gutsy, multidimensional heroine, as well as a stellar cast of supporting characters. McLaughlin keeps the pace lively throughout, and just when readers think they have the finale figured out, she throws them a few curveballs. This novel will appeal to McLaughlin’s fans and win her many more. Agent: Marisa Corvisiero, Marisa Corvisiero Literary Agency. (June)

Publishers Weekly

"McLaughlin knocks it out of the park with her second sports contemporary... This novel goes above and beyond the typical sports romance with a hot, complex hero and a gutsy, multidimensional heroine. McLaughlin keeps the pace lively throughout, and just when readers think they have the finale figured out, she throws them a few curveballs. This novel will appeal to McLaughlin's fans and will win her many more."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Heidi McLaughlin never fails to pull me in with her storytelling, and I assure you she'll do the same to you! Home Run is a home run, in my book."—Jen McLaughlin, New York Times bestselling author

"Fun sports romance done only the way that Heidi McLaughlin can do! I absolutely loved this book. It was fun, it was quick, it was dramatic and it was all around a good time."—Lulo Fangirl on Third Base

"Heidi McLaughlin hit another home run with this one."—Love N. Books on Third Base

"A beautiful, emotional story about love and healing. It was both sexy and heartwarming. I finished the book with happy tears in my eyes. Loved it!"—Aestas Book Blog on My Unexpected Forever

"I was glued to the page from start to finish and just couldn't turn those pages fast enough."—Aestas Book Blog on Here With Me and Choose Me

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