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Calling the Curveball: a Small Town Sports Romance

Calling the Curveball: a Small Town Sports Romance

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Synopsis

Jamie Lawson should have made it to baseball’s big leagues, but a tragic accident sends him back to his hometown with his dreams shattered. Then life throws him a curveball named Kira. Will he let her walk, or will he embrace the possibility that his glory days just might be in the future?

His dreams were shattered. She’s just looking for a pleasant distraction. Can a summer fling turn into more?

Jamie Lawson always believed he’d make it to baseball’s big leagues. Instead, a tragic accident sent him back to his small Minnesota hometown with his dreams shattered. Six years later, his chiropractic clinic is a success, but guilt and grief still haunt him. The closest he comes to baseball these days is coaching little league and umpiring for the town’s Fourth of July softball tournament. He doesn’t have room in his life for the pretty stranger who shows up at the tournament and boldly asks him on a date.

It was supposed to be casual…

After an ugly divorce, grade school teacher Kira Walker escapes to Nash, Minnesota to spend the summer with her sister and reassess her life. Romance isn’t on the agenda, but how can she keep her mind on the game—and her goals—when the umpire at the local softball tournament is such a distraction? She might be up for a summer fling if it was with Sexy Umpire Man…

As the summer—and the romance—heats up, so do Jamie’s inner demons. Will he let Kira walk, or will he embrace the possibility that his glory days just might be in the future, with Kira?

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💙 Sample Chapter

“I’m sorry,” she said softly.

His hands stopped moving. “You’re not the one who needs to be sorry,” he said. “You’re hurt.”

She took a shaky breath and tried to lighten things up. “I sure chose the wrong place to walk.”

“It was my fault,” he said.

She frowned. How did he figure that?

“We’ve got to get you to the canoe.” He drew in a breath. “I’ll carry you.”

“You can’t do that,” she said. “What about your knee?”

“My knee is fine,” he said.

“What about wrapping the ankle?”

“With what?” he said. “And you can’t walk barefoot through those woods.”

“Well, I’m not going to piggyback on you.” She crossed her arms. “And that’s final.”

He stood over her now. “You are obstinate, aren’t you?”
“That’s a recent development.” Her words were clipped as she thought about all the years she’d been… acquiescent. Then she reminded herself that Jamie had not been part of that. “I only pull it with people I care about, so…”

Those tawny-brown eyes that she’d first been attracted to were locked on hers, dark and stormy, impossible to read… and impossible to look away from.

It seemed like an eternity passed between them, but it was probably only seconds.

Then Jamie shucked off his shirt. He did it so quickly that Kira wasn’t prepared for the primal sensation that overrode any pain from her hands and ankle. Then again, maybe there was no preparing for it because Jamie’s torso was about as perfect as she had imagined. The tattoo on his shoulder tapered onto his chest, a barrel chest, completely bare of hair except… was that a happy trail?

She suppressed the desire to fan herself.

Jamie’s hand worked the T-shirt.

“What are you doing?” She managed to ask as a Rrrrrrrip broke the silence.

“We need something to wrap your ankle with,” he said.
“Yeah, but—”

Rrrrrrip.

“You got a better idea?” he said.

She looked down at her tank top. He noticed. “Using yours is not an option,” he said wryly.

Rrrrrrip.

He was right. “You like that phrase,” she grumbled. “’Not an option’.”

In this case, it was true.

Rrrrrrip.

She watched in dismay as Jamie reduced his shirt to shreds. She was so going to get him a new shirt.

Apparently satisfied with the state of his shirt, Jamie knelt again. Kira clamped her mouth shut as he went to work wrapping her ankle.

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