num_pages: 257
description: Dominic GirardMy final baseball season with the Easton U Pirates feels bittersweet. Id like to go out on a high note graduate and focus on the family business. But a certain pitcher is making senior year a challenge. Not only because Maclain is stubborn as hell but because he makes me feel things I never have about another guy. With each snarky comment and hard-won grin he reveals a little more of himself and before I know it Im in over my head. Mason MaclainIll be graduating college this year which also means the end of baseball a sport Ive played my entire life. It feels like a significant chapter is coming to a close leaving behind a void Im unwilling to face. Something else I dont want to face? The impossibly charming Pirates catcher whose quick wit and killer smirk poke holes in all my defenses. With each lingering look and quiet exchange I want to push him away and pull him closer at the same time. Ive never felt this intense draw before and theres no way Ill ever admit it.When Coach proposes a team-building activity to improve our chemistry on the field little does he know things are heating up behind the scenes as well. A flicker of a connection sparks into a firestorm and soon Girard and I are experiencing things for the first timetogether. But outside the haven of our hotel room reality infringes all too soon. Im clinging to my fraying relationship with my dad and for Girard coming out is still scary loving family or not. Resisting the pull to Girard seems futile but I struggle at every turn. Any longer and Ill lose the only person who makes my pulse thud quicker than a fastball over home plate.Theres a pitcher-and-catcher joke in there somewhere.
language: English
title: Home Plate
publisher: Christina Lee