"This is sports romance at its best! I was hooked from the first page!" - Claire Contreras, New York Times bestselling author

The Ninth Inning, an all-new standalone sports romance from New York Times bestselling author J. Sterling, is available now!

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.

Caroline's Review

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"I'd always known that I missed her, but I never realized just how much until I saw her. It was like a sledgehammer to the chest."

Cole Anders thinks he can't have baseball and the girl. Christina Travers is the girl who could be everything to him but there's a yo-yo history between them. It's his final year of college and he's desperate to be drafted but he has lost his batting mojo. A light-bulb moment has him realising that he's going about things all wrong and he's determined to win Christina back. However, it won't be as easy he thinks.

"His lips apologized, his kiss spilling all of his feelings and emotions into me, and I took them without hesitation."

Christina's heart was well and truly broken by Cole when he cut things off permanently with her. She shut him completely out of her life but that didn't mean that he still didn't own a piece of her heart. When he tells her that he wants her in his life properly, can she fully trust him again?

I must say that I struggled somewhat with this book. I found it a little bit slow going. When Cole decides to be the perfect boyfriend, he was pretty swoony but it was a complete 180 turn from where he was. It was like he'd been holding himself back so much before but, once he let himself go, it was like opening the floodgates and I felt he was almost overwhelming in his devotion. Christina was so weak where he was concerned. She'd let herself be played for three years and then gave him another chance so quickly after such a harsh breakup between them. Later in the book, something happens and I wasn't too sure that I liked Cole's reaction and how he dealt with it.

On the whole, I felt that the story was missing a certain zing and an element of excitement for the couple. I found it hard to empathise with them. Sorry, but this book wasn't really for me.

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About J. Sterling

My goal is to write books that you can get lost in and stories that will leave you with a smile and a full heart. If you can forget about the real world while you're reading and fall in love with my characters, then I've done my job. A lot of what I write has real life aspects in it, but that's what makes the stories so relatable- the fact that they could happen to anyone... and have! I live in California with my son, Blake. If you can't find me sitting behind a computer screen, then there's a good chance I'm sitting in the bleachers of a baseball stadium watching him play. I love traveling to new places, meeting my readers and spending time with the love of my life, my very own second chance romance, who inspires me daily. I know you have a million books to choose from and I am humbled, grateful and thankful each time you choose to read one of mine, or tell someone else to read them. Thank you.

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