Striking Distance: Thunder Series, #1

It's steamy. It's sexy. The romance is forbidden. The passion breathtaking. STRIKING DISTANCE is a contemporary sports romance that will have you fanning yourself all night long…

I'm the Tennessee Thunder's star pitcher. Million-dollar arm, contract renewal on the table, reputation for being a player on and off the field—and I earned every bit of it. Life is good. Life is easy. Life is exactly the way I like it.

Then she shows up.

A press pass around her neck, a notebook in her hand, and absolutely no business being anywhere near my locker room—except apparently that's her job now. Margot Lane. Smart-mouthed, gorgeous, entirely too observant for my own good, and the first reporter who's ever looked at me like she's trying to figure out what's actually wrong instead of just writing down what I tell her to say.

She's not wrong to wonder. There's an injury I'm not reporting. A contract that depends on nobody finding out. And a woman who's somehow already figured out more than my own trainer has, standing three feet away from me, smelling like roses and trouble and looking like every bad decision I've ever wanted to make twice.

I tell myself I'll wait her out. She'll get her quotes, write her column, and go back to focusing on literally anyone else's stats but mine.

Instead I find myself inventing reasons to keep her close. In the dugout. In my truck. In my bed, where she's a lot less interested in talking about my pitch count and a lot more interested in things that have nothing to do with baseball at all.

I've got a secret that could end my career and a woman who refuses to look away from it—or from me. I tell myself I'm protecting the contract.

Really, I just don't want her gone.

No one does that to Chandler Cross. Until she did.