The Pitcher She Ruined

Matteo Vitale has exactly one job: play baseball like he isn't anything else. He has a cannon of an arm, an ailing mother, and a family name that has been on the wrong side of every courtroom he's ever stepped into. Halston University is a favor. The College World Series is the point. Nobody asks about the rest. Then Cara De Luca — grad student, campus paper, the only reporter with more questions than sense — sits down across from him and asks about his uncle. She should be a threat. She becomes the only person he tells the truth to. And when his family asks him to throw the biggest game of his life, he hands Cara the story that will send him to prison.