The Rookie

The Blurb ♡

Austin Adams has spent his entire life preparing for the Major Leagues.

At twenty-one, the Carolina Catfish's newest third baseman is disciplined, determined, and completely inexperienced everywhere except the baseball diamond.

Then he meets Mia James.

She's nine years older, fiercely protective of her thirteen-year-old nephew, and wearing Austin's jersey when she walks into his life. She also thinks he's an arrogant frat boy—and she has no intention of becoming another conquest for a professional athlete.

That would be easier to believe if Austin could form a coherent sentence around her.

What begins with free baseball tickets and awkward flirting soon becomes late-night texts, secret dates, and chemistry neither of them can ignore. Mia might have more experience, but Austin is determined to prove that being a rookie doesn't mean he doesn't know exactly what—or who—he wants.

For Austin, falling is easy.

Convincing Mia that their age difference doesn't matter is harder.

Because Mia's life is more complicated than Austin realizes. She's fighting to protect her nephew from the dangerous man blackmailing her, and trusting someone else could cost her the family she has sacrificed everything to keep.

Austin has spent his whole career waiting for his chance to step up to the plate.

Now he'll risk his reputation, his Rookie of the Year season, and everything he has worked for to prove that Mia and Jett are worth fighting for.

The Rookie is a steamy, open-door professional-baseball romance featuring an older heroine, an inexperienced younger hero, he falls first, found family, protective guardians, and a rookie determined to become Mia's safest place. It can be read as a standalone and is Book 3 in the Carolina Catfish series.