Fifth Inning Official
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Publisher Description
I just got traded from Atlanta to the Baltimore Bay Birds. I cannot stress enough how much I. Hate. Baltimore. I grew up in New York, and the Bay Birds are my mortal enemy. Now I have to prove my worth as a pitcher if I can ever hope to play for the New York Kings someday. The sooner I get the hell out of this city, the better.
I'm still not over my broken engagement, so being the maid of honor for my best friend is tough. At least I get to sing at the wedding, which reminds me that my Broadway dreams are more important than any stupid man. Besides, I'm happy to support my dearest friend even if she has her Prince Charming and I don't.
Prince Charming. That's what the gorgeous maid of honor said she was looking for, and that is definitely not me. And yet, I haven't been able to stop thinking about her since I heard her sing at the wedding. I wanted to get out of Baltimore ASAP, but this woman somehow has me wanting to stay…
Customer Reviews
Baseball romance. Grumpy pitcher, frustrated actress.
Fifth Inning Official by Linda Fausnet revisits Baltimore and the Bay Birds, their baseball team. They had just traded for and gotten Cam from the Atlanta Suns and he was hot about it. He wanted to go to New York AND he’d had no notice they were trading him. Upon his arrival his big month, as usual, got him him trouble when he was less than complimentary to his new town. Now he was a pariah with both the town and the team. The only guy who really seemed to like him was his catcher (Cam was a pitcher), Trace Ridgerton, who was working with him to develop a new pitch. After a decent enough game he went to see his old friend, Rusty’s bar: a place he had opened after his bad heart sidelined his career. He got himself invited to to Rusty and Amanda’s wedding which would be a good place to pick up a woman for the night, but right now he was working on a woman for this night when he saw her: Wilder. But she was not a one-night stand. So he forgot about her and went home alone. He saw her at the wedding, she was the maid of honor, and he heard her sing, and it changed his life. She was all he could think about. He googled her and watched YouTube videos of her singing but she was really not his kind of girl. She was a permanent kind of girl. He asked Rusty for her number and got it, but got a warning as well.
The biggest problem in this relationship is poor communication. When he finally asked for advice, that was what Trace had said: tell her. Wilder could understand how Cam felt about baseball because she felt that same way about musical theatre. It was her dream and one she was not willing to give up. She did also want a love for the ages, but even that came second to the career she didn’t have, but wanted desperately. She was talented, as was he, but lots of times it is timing and luck that takes you where you want to go. They both knew that, in spades. They were a good match, both focused, willing to put in the work, and ready to do their best. It was a good romance in that something really came in front of the romance: the story. Dreams die hard and one is wont to give them up, as they should be. This theme repeated itself in this story, and in the end, the dream maybe changed a little. Good book! Good characters, good theme, good story.
I was invited to read a free e-ARC of Fifth Inning Official by the author. All thoughts and opinions are mine. #LindaFausnet #FifthInningOfficial