The Trainer She Saved

Emmy Ruiz has one rule: never fall for an athlete. She's kept it for three years. Then Hartwell State hires a new pitching coach, and in walks Marcus Webb. Marcus is brilliant, exhausted, and raising his daughter almost entirely on his own. He's also the man who disappeared on Emmy five years ago without a goodbye, and he's been carrying the reason ever since. Emmy doesn't want him to explain. She wants to do her job. But the job keeps putting them in the same training room, and his daughter keeps calling her 'Emmy' like it's a promise. When Marcus's custody case drags his past into public, Emmy has to decide whether to speak for a man she's still learning to forgive — or protect the only reputation she has left. A slow-burn single dad college baseball romance with a hard-won, honest happily ever after.