A cute holiday baseball romance, enemies to lovers with some serious “You’ve got Mail” vibes. It is lighthearted and fun, and about finding love in unexpected places. Emmy Jameson is a baseball data analyst for a Major League Baseball team, she is outstanding at her job but has to face many hurdles at work being a female in a male-dominant industry. She is up for a promotion and in competition with the other strong analyst, Gabe Olson. Emmy holds her personal life close to the vest and doesn’t share personal details at all with her coworkers. She has sworn off dating, but one fateful night, she gets a text from a mystery number saying “Last night was fun.” It turns out that some girl at a bar gave a guy a fake number, which just so happened to be Emmy’s number!
What are the odds? (I mean, Emmy and Gabe could probably calculate the odds, but we couldn’t.)
They exchange texts over the course of a few weeks and start to develop feelings for each other, to the point where Emmy is ready to invite the mystery man to her sister’s wedding in Cancun. Now, this isn’t technically a spoiler since it is in the blurb, and you can see it coming a mile away, but of COURSE the mystery man is Gabe. There is so much built up anticipation about the identity of the texter, who Emmy has listed as “Axe murderer” in her phone. I promise you, the witty text banter is worth it, and you will love seeing Emmy and Gabe feel safe sharing their lives with each other on text and falling in love. All of us want to believe that if we share ourselves with someone, that they will still be able to love us.
The narrative accurately and infuriatingly describes being a woman in the workplace, and how much harder women, especially in male dominant fields, have to work in order to be taken seriously.
If you enjoy a sports romance, witty banter and a good rivals-to-lovers storyline, this is a great summer beach read for you!
Thanks to @netgalley and @avonbooks for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. Book to be published June 10, 2025.
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