The Balk

The Blurb ♡

Grayson Hawk might be one of the greatest pitchers in professional baseball.

He might also be the most arrogant man I've ever met.

When he interrupts my lunch in an Atlanta hotel, I have no idea who he is. That changes when his attorney contacts me the following morning and asks me to sign an NDA covering a "mutually beneficial relationship" with the Carolina Catfish's infamous playboy pitcher.

Unfortunately for Grayson, I'm a lawyer.

And his contract is terrible.

Instead of signing it, I tear it apart, annotate every ridiculous clause, and return it with a few corrections of my own. That should be the end of our acquaintance.

Then my firm assigns me to represent him.

Grayson is facing allegations that he cheated his way to the top of baseball. His team needs to repair his reputation, protect his business interests, and convince the public that there's more to him than blondes, scandals, and suspiciously sticky baseballs.

I need to make partner.

Neither of us can afford to cross the line between attorney and client.

But Grayson has never met a boundary he doesn't want to test.

Every trip to Charlotte makes resisting him harder. Beneath the ego and filthy jokes is a man who funds opportunities for vulnerable children, adores the mother who raised him, and understands my adoption story in a way I never expected.

Our chemistry was supposed to be covered by a contract.

Our feelings weren't supposed to exist at all.

When our relationship is exposed, my career collapses—and another scandal makes me believe Grayson was never capable of choosing only me.

I return to California with no job, no future plan, and a heart I refuse to admit he broke.

But Grayson Hawk only plays to win.

And apparently, I'm the one victory he isn't willing to surrender.

The Balk is a steamy, open-door professional-baseball romance featuring enemies to lovers, forbidden attorney-client chemistry, a reformed playboy, workplace scandal, an adopted heroine, and an arrogant pitcher brought to his knees. It can be read as a complete standalone in the Carolina Catfish series.