Love Bats Last
The Heart of the Game Series, #1
Pamela Aare
Format: Paperback,
e-book
Pages: 317
Publisher: SeaStar
Press
Genres: Contemporary
Romance, Sports Romance, Women’s Fiction
Characters: Alex
Tavonesi, Jackie Brandon
Book Tagline
When love’s in the game you can’t
play it safe...Book Description
In LOVE BATS LAST, author Pamela Aares
introduces you to the Heart
of the Game series. Get
ready for All-Star alpha males and the strong women they come to love!
A stormy night changes their lives
forever...
The baseball diamond isn’t the only field for all-star player
Alex Tavonesi; he also runs his family’s prestigious vineyard. What he can't
seem to run is his love life. He’s closing in on the perfect vintage and the
perfect game, but so far the perfect woman has eluded him.
Veterinarian Jackie Brandon is eluding her aristocratic past and
memories of a soccer star who jilted her just before their wedding. She devotes
herself to a marine mammal rescue center on the northern California coast,
where hundreds of seals and sea lions are washing up dead.
A chance meeting in a midnight storm brings Alex and Jackie
together to rescue a stranded whale. Watching her work, he realizes she's the
passionate, courageous woman he thought he'd never find--he just has to
overcome her deep distrust of jocks. Jackie's passion and courage lead her to
discover what's killing the sea mammals. The culprits want to silence her, and
Alex is the only one standing in their way. What will he sacrifice to save the woman he loves?
Quotes and Praise
“Pamela Aares deftly weaves together
the desires and strategies of world-class sports with the equally charged realm
of the heart to create fast-moving tales you’ll wish would never end.”
—Mary Beath, award-winning author of Refuge of Whirling Light on the contemporary series the Heart of the Game.
“A new star in the romance world!” —E. Alexander, New York Times best-selling author
Excerpt:
Alex’s cell rang as he and Scotty drove out of the stadium
parking lot. He knew the ringtone; it was Sabrina.
“Answer
that, would you?” He nodded to Scotty. “It’s my sister.”
“Sea
World Express,” Scotty said. He pushed the speaker button.
“Alex,
tell me you’re coming up for this
party. I can’t bear another round of Where’s
Alex tonight.”
“On
my way. Scotty’s coming with me. I have a stop to make and then we’ll be up.
Kiss the gargoyle for me.”
Scotty
clicked off the phone. “Gargoyle?”
“My father bought it at an auction before he died.” He
shot Scotty a grin. “It’s supposed to ward off dugout dollies.”
He was only half kidding. The women who tracked players,
often developing elaborate plans to make contact, kept Scotty well in their
sights. They tracked Alex too. Though he’d dated a few, he kept to his rule to
keep it casual. He’d learned better than to drag a woman into his life. He’d
done it once, when he was in the minors. Another mistake he was determined not
to repeat.
He’d been young and foolish that summer, and he’d fallen
hard—he hadn’t been reading the signs. Not that anyone liked life in the
minors. The long bus rides, cramped motels, terrible food... it wore the best
of them down.
But
it’d turned out that the woman he’d loved was in love with Trovare, in love
with the flash. She was interested in Alex in his role as vineyard heir. Being
dragged around from one small town to another during the minor league season,
into a life without the glamor or the swirl of San Francisco, was of no
interest to her.
He’d
been foolish to think she loved the game, that she’d loved him.
At
one point she’d even tried to talk him out of playing, and into returning to
the city. But worse than that, she’d ridiculed one of his friends, a young
outfielder from Tennessee. One thing the game held sacred was respect for
anyone’s honest effort.
When
she’d put down Tom’s life and his dreams, Alex had finally realized he’d been
fooling himself all along. He wouldn’t do that ever again.
He
should thank Tom.
“You’re
losing your touch, Tavonesi. You don’t need a gargoyle. Just handle the lovely
ladies like grounders. A moment in the hands”—he whirled his hands in the space
between them—“and then a gentle and mutual toss-off.”
“Thanks,
Yoda,” Alex said. “Remind me to ask you for hitting advice as well.”
That wasn’t going to happen. Nobody expected a pitcher to hit,
and Scotty met that expectation handily by hitting well below .100. He managed
to put down a good sacrifice bunt on occasion, but that was about it. Alex
couldn’t imagine life without the challenge of hitting. Reading the pitchers
and learning their patterns, watching the seams, tuning his body to the pace
and the arc, the ritual and the focus, it ran in his blood.
About the Author
Pamela is an author
of contemporary and historical romance novels. Her first book, Jane Austen and the Archangel (Angels
Come to Earth, #1) was released
in 2012. Midnight Becomes
You, (Angels Come to Earth, #2) will
release in 2014, along with three more books in the Heart of the Game series, all releasing in 2014.
Before becoming a romance author, Pamela Aares produced and wrote award-winning films and radio shows including Your Water, Your Life featuring actress Susan Sarandon and the NPR series New Voices. After producing The Powers of the Universe and The Earth’s Imagination, she knew without a doubt that romance lives at the heart of the universe and powers the greatest stories of all.
Pamela holds a Master’s Degree from Harvard and lives in the wine country of California with her husband and two curious cats. Her love of nature led to adventures scuba diving the coral reefs of Fiji, exploring the cliffs of Greece, sea kayaking the Rosario Straits and white water rafting the wild and scenic rivers of the west—and romance!
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