Jackie Deskovich
Win, Lose, or Rain by Jackie Deskovich
Carter Sims has spent the last eight years with the Wichita Whippets, catching for pitchers headed where he’s been aiming his whole life: the big leagues. Pitchers go, but the team’s unofficial pitching coach and good luck charm, Renee Bennett, stays every season, helping new guys and her friend Carter however she can. When a pitcher leaves Wichita, they usually don’t come back. But of course, when one does, it’s exactly who Carter wishes it weren’t: his first love.
Jason “Ace” James tasted the majors before injuring himself and being sent back to the minor leagues to rehab his arm. Now he’s being traded, again, back to his old team where every face is new except one, his former best friend and the only man he’s ever been in love with.
Sharing the field again means neither of them can seem to handle the game they’ve dedicated their lives to, so Renee takes on Ace as her season project. That would be just fine if old feelings died and new feelings didn’t develop over a summer, but life and love are much more complicated than baseball.
Win, Lose, or Rain is a baseball romance meant for adult readers with queer characters figuring out what it means for them to love more than one person.
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