The Money Pitch (Living Legends #2)

“Mo was 38, and I was 25. He was in the middle of my danger zone, but any serious thoughts of him as anything beyond intermittent eye candy were impossible. We had a past, and it wasn’t a pleasant one.”

Jack Madison is a 25-year-old graduate student working through his academic program while completing a book project on his famous father, baseball relief pitcher J.W. Madison. Charlotte, North Carolina is his home city, and also the home to the recent baseball expansion franchise the Charlotte Yellowjackets.

Mo Sadler is a 38-year-old big league relief pitcher nearing the end of his active playing career when an off-season trade brings him to Charlotte. After getting over the initial shock of being sold off to a team with little hope for making it to the postseason, Mo is pleased to be playing in close proximity to North Carolina’s Outer Banks, the location of his treasured beach home.

An interview opportunity for Jack’s book brings them together at Mo’s Hatteras Island house and attraction blossoms into desire. There are only two big problems. Mo is Jack’s father’s legendary baseball nemesis, and Jack abhors the celebrity spotlight. Both men know the relationship should be impossible, but the heart wants what it wants and won’t give up so easily. Mo’s money pitch in baseball is the slider. Faced with a relationship in the process of crumbling, he sets out to concoct a real-life money pitch to permanently win Jack’s heart.

The Money Pitch is a 54,000-word gay baseball romance with steamy scenes, a happily-ever-after ending, a lucky rabbit’s foot, and dancing on the sand. It is the second in the series Living Legends following A Brand New Ballgame . Multiple characters appear in both books, but it can be read as a standalone novel.