Title: The Ninth Inning

Author: J. Sterling

Page count: 244

Published: April 10^th, 2020

Publisher: Social Butterfly PR

Genre: Sports Romance

Received: from the in exchange for an honest review

Rating:   4/5

Summary:

Cole Anders is in his last season at Fullton State. If he doesn’t get drafted this year, he’ll be forced to hang up his cleats for good. It’s not something he’s ready to do.

To prove he’s serious about his final season, he’s given up girls. No more casual hookups, dates or one-night stands. But there’s one girl who has always refused to give up on him. One girl who has been there since the start of Freshman year. One girl he stupidly assumed would always be waiting for him when he got off the field, no matter how long it took.

Christina’s had enough of Cole pushing her aside for baseball. She’s grown tired of waiting for him to see what she’s known since they were freshmen… that they are good together. She’s finally moved on- for good this time.

Cole has other ideas, but she refuses to cave. It’s not her problem if he wants her now. Too little too late.

There comes a point in your life when you have to stop the incessant merry-go-round and just get off the ride, right? Try telling that to Cole.

My Thoughts:

This is the first book that I have read by this author and I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it. With the baseball season being postponed atm this was a good book to read to fill that void. I was completely enthralled with this book

I loved Cole he was convinced that girls are a distraction and doesn’t want to have a relationship because that would distract him from his baseball career. One thing that I did noticed while reading the book was that Cole wasn’t like the other players and really was a softy at heart.

Christina is a strong female lead who I really enjoyed reading about. She is hell bent on learning from her mistakes to not let them get to her again.

The connection between these two just exudes off the pages.  I can only imagine what is going to happen in the next one.