Making the Cut

“Those green eyes bore down on me without mercy. The fact that he was strikingly handsome...only added insult to injury.”

Tyler Phoenix was one of the top spring training baseball prospects pegged as a favorite to be rookie of the year. Then weeks of lackluster performance culminated in humiliation from three strikeouts in a row in a single game. After the game, he got a tap on the shoulder from the manager and the word that he was cut from the roster and being sent back down to the minors.

Luke Meyers was the pitcher who delivered the strikeouts. Staring down Tyler at the plate with his tall, lanky body, and piercing green eyes, he brought the young prospect to his knees, but it was all in a day’s work for a pitcher in spring training’s Grapefruit League.

Now it’s a year later, and Tyler and Luke are thrown together in an airport hotel as refuge from a February blizzard shutting down flights to Florida out of New York City. Luke tries to break down the walls of animosity while Tyler clings tight to his still seething anger. The memories of one sizzling hot night in bed were meant to be left in New York, forgotten by the time the plane touched down on a runway in Orlando. The agreement to bury the secret worked perfectly until a surprise trade brought them back together on the same team.

Making the Cut is a 45,000 word standalone enemies to lovers romance. There are steamy scenes, no cliffhangers, and a happily ever after ending.