With only about two months to go until the official OPENING DAY for Major League Baseball…this book is a great “season” appetizer, especially for reader-baseball fans…
A
wholesome, sweet love story about how a couple, divorced for five years, gets a
second chance to fall in love all over again.
Becca Kinzer
treats readers to a wholesome, sweet romance that brings together a couple
divorced for five years in First
Love, Second Draft.
Forty-two-year-old Gracie Parker of Alda, Illinois is
a blocked romance writer. She’s also hobbling around, sidelined from a freak
accident that injured her hip. She struggles to pay her medical bills and those
of her ailing father. With Gracie in need of cash flow, her nephew slyly rents
a refurbished cabin on her property to her ex-husband, Noah Parker, a
40-year-old, sidelined Major League pitcher for the Seattle Mariners plagued
with issues of his own—including still carrying a romantic torch for Gracie.
Noah returns to town, offering to help Gracie
convalesce in the hope he might also convince her to help him write his sports
memoir. In reuniting, the couple begins to learn things they never knew about
each other while also coming to terms with what drove them apart—Gracie was
focused on a having a baby she couldn’t have and thus became resentful of Noah
whose passions were with baseball. When Noah is asked to pitch for the World
Series, the strides to rebuild the couple’s relationship are suddenly
challenged and emotional wounds from the past once again resurface.
With great tenderness, Kinzer (Dear Henry, Love Edith;
Love
in Tandem) delivers enough literary curve
balls and changeups to keep readers fully invested in a hopeful story aimed
on the prospect of new beginnings in life and in love.
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