A Small-Town Baseball Romance
Book One of The Stillwell Sliders Series
Harper Callahan came home to Stillwell, Texas to rebuild her life.
Not to find a six-foot-one MLB pitcher nearly naked in her grandmother’s guest house.
After her superstar-shortstop husband’s very public betrayal, Harper is done with baseball players. Done with ego. Done with sacrificing herself for someone else’s career while her own dreams collect dust in the background.
Then Austin Lexington shows up.
Austin is baseball royalty. A former Rookie of the Year with a filthy slider, a rehab assignment he definitely doesn’t want, and exactly zero interest in small-town Texas. Six weeks with the Stillwell Sliders is supposed to help him rebuild his arm and get back to the big leagues. That’s it.
Instead, he gets Harper.
Sharp-tongued. Guarded. Impossible to ignore.
Living under the same roof was never part of the plan. Neither were the late-night conversations, stolen glances across the kitchen, surprise breakfasts, or the way Harper starts seeing the man underneath the headlines.
But Austin’s return to baseball has an expiration date.
And Harper knows better than anyone what happens when loving a baseball player costs you everything.
Because six weeks in Stillwell was always temporary, and falling for each other wasn’t supposed to happen at all.
Bases Loaded is a steamy small-town baseball romance featuring:
Book One of The Stillwell Sliders Series
Harper Callahan came home to Stillwell, Texas to rebuild her life.
Not to find a six-foot-one MLB pitcher nearly naked in her grandmother’s guest house.
After her superstar-shortstop husband’s very public betrayal, Harper is done with baseball players. Done with ego. Done with sacrificing herself for someone else’s career while her own dreams collect dust in the background.
Then Austin Lexington shows up.
Austin is baseball royalty. A former Rookie of the Year with a filthy slider, a rehab assignment he definitely doesn’t want, and exactly zero interest in small-town Texas. Six weeks with the Stillwell Sliders is supposed to help him rebuild his arm and get back to the big leagues. That’s it.
Instead, he gets Harper.
Sharp-tongued. Guarded. Impossible to ignore.
Living under the same roof was never part of the plan. Neither were the late-night conversations, stolen glances across the kitchen, surprise breakfasts, or the way Harper starts seeing the man underneath the headlines.
But Austin’s return to baseball has an expiration date.
And Harper knows better than anyone what happens when loving a baseball player costs you everything.
Because six weeks in Stillwell was always temporary, and falling for each other wasn’t supposed to happen at all.
Bases Loaded is a steamy small-town baseball romance featuring:
- forced proximity
enemies-to-lovers tension
reverse age gap
an injured MLB pitcher in his comeback era
a photographer heroine rebuilding her life after divorce
found family and small-town chaos
banter, longing, and late-night tension
open-door spice
a guaranteed happily ever after
Perfect for readers who love emotionally rich, banter-driven romance with heart, humor, and heat and the storytelling style of Emily Henry, Lucy Score, and Sarah Adams.
Welcome to Stillwell, Texas, where baseball is religion, everybody knows your business, and falling in love is never part of the game plan.
Genre: Romance