The Sweet Spot

The Blurb ♡

Whit Marlow knows how to handle balls.

Baseballs, unfortunately, are a different story.

As the number-one-ranked female golfer in the world, Whit is used to performing under pressure. But when her ceremonial first pitch bounces humiliatingly toward home plate, the last person she wants retrieving it is Jonathan Brian "JB" Callahan—the enormous Carolina Catfish catcher who appears to be laughing at her.

JB isn't laughing.

He's trying not to reveal that he has been completely obsessed with Whit for years.

When they're randomly paired for a charity Pro-Am, Whit makes one thing clear: she refuses to lose. JB might be distractible, superstitious, and incapable of keeping a thought inside his head, but beneath all that golden-retriever energy is one of the best catchers in professional baseball—and a man determined to prove they belong on the same team.

A weekend of golf becomes competitive coaching, heated arguments, an unforgettable golf-cart encounter, and the beginning of something neither athlete can fit into an already impossible schedule.

Whit lives from tournament to tournament.

JB's baseball season keeps him hundreds of miles away.

Their stolen days become late-night calls, suggestive photographs, ridiculous gifts, and the growing realization that neither of them wants a relationship confined to a phone screen.

Then JB's batting slump threatens to derail his season.

He's convinced Whit is his good-luck charm. Whit knows he doesn't need luck—he only needs to believe in himself as much as she does.

But convincing him of that might require the strangest use of batting gloves in baseball history.

The Sweet Spot is a filthy, funny, open-door sports romance featuring a black-cat golfer, her golden-retriever baseball catcher, competitive Pro-Am partners, he falls first, long-distance yearning, ridiculous superstitions, hot dogs, rat facts, and a very public declaration of love. It can be read as a standalone and is Book 4 in the Carolina Catfish series.