The Prospects: A Novel

ISBN: 0593596862

Author: Hoffman, KT

Condition: New

The pressure cooker of minor league baseball leads to major chemistry in this exhilarating, sexy, and triumphant rivals to lovers debut romance.Tenacious, sexy, effervescent, doggedly hopeful, and endlessly charming, with characters to root hard for and an irresistible voice-I completely adored it. -Casey McQuiston, author of Red, White & Royal BlueHope is familiar territory for Gene Ionescu. He has always loved baseball, a sport made for underdogs and optimists like him. He also loves his team, the minor league Beaverton Beavers, and, for the most part, he loves the career hes built. As the first openly trans player in professional baseball, Gene has nearly everything hes ever let himself dream of-that is, until Luis Estrada, Genes former teammate and current rival, gets traded to the Beavers, destroying the careful equilibrium of Genes life.Gene and Luis cant manage a civil conversation off the field or a competent play on it, but in the close confines of dugout benches and roadie buses, they begrudgingly rediscover a comfortable rhythm. As the two grow closer, the tension between them turns electric, and their chemistry spills past the confines of the stadium. For every tight double play they execute, theres also a glance at summer-tan shoulders or a secret shared, each one a breathless moment of possibility that ignites in Gene the visceral, terrifying kind of desire hes never allowed himself. Soon, Gene has to reconcile the quiet, minor-league-sized life he used to find fulfilling with the major-league dreams Luis inspires.This triumphant debut romance reveals whats possible when we allow ourselves to want something enough to swing for the fences.