"a home run"

Tampa Bay Bomber World series hero Richard "Risk" Kincaid is going home to Frostproof, Florida now that the season is over to see Jacy Grayson, who he has loved since high school. However, Jacy sees him as her best buddy, the guy she turns to when her latest romance fizzles. This year at the annual charity event he plans to win her heart. Unbeknownst to Risk is that Jacy has loved him since high school and makes up lovers so that he can mend her so called broken heart. She knows one day she must tell him the truth perhaps at this year's charity event.

Stephanie "Stevie" Cole knows her baseball trivia while everyone else knows she loves World Series seventh game losing pitcher Aaron Grayson who is also coming home to Frostproof for the charity event. However, this year Aaron brings two people with him, a dreaded fiancée Natalie and his roommate Zen Driscoll, who at first sight finds himself half in love with Stevie.

This is a fun baseball romance with two (and indirectly three) tales of love though the main story line follows the escapades of Risk and Jacy. The lead male risks everything with a bottom of the ninth suicide squeeze that will leave him with Jacy or striking out into a double play as both will end miserable. The supporting role players, Stevie and Zen, and to a lesser degree Aaron and Natalie also score as readers will enjoy the off season capers of baseball stars and the women they love.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted June 29, 2006

Summary

Risk Kincaid is finding out that the life of a pro baseball player isn't all it's cracked up to be. The fame, the fortune, the fans—what good are they when he keeps striking out with the one woman who really matters to him? Jacy Grayson is sassy and spirited, but she only sees him as her rebound lover—the man who'll pick up the pieces when her heart is broken. Yet Risk has never stepped down from the plate before, and he certainly isn't going to start now. The bases are loaded—all Risk needs to do is show her that the diamond he has in mind won't be found on a baseball field.