The Fall Classic

He spent six months looking for the beautiful, bookish girl who dropped a patch.

Finding her was the easy part.

Logan

I grip too hard.

My pitch. My family. Even the memory of Georgie, the girl I met six months ago at a Spring Training fan event. The girl with the dimpled smile, the coffee-shop patch pinned to her Chucks, and a beat-up paperback in her hands.

While I should be working on the spiraling anxiety wrecking my pitch, I find myself looking for Georgie instead. In every ballpark. Every coffee shop. Every city our team passes through.

Then I get sent down to the minors, walk into a coffee shop that feels like home—

And there she is.

Suddenly, my anxiety takes a back seat to the gorgeous girl who wears her grief like a badge of honor instead of something to hide.

But when you’ve spent your whole life gripping the things you’re afraid to lose, how do you know the difference between holding someone…

and holding on too hard?

Georgie

A dream is a wish that breaks your heart, which is why I don't let myself dream.

My mother’s gone. My stepmother runs her coffee shop now. And I stopped believing in more a long time ago.

Then a handsome baseball player spends thirty minutes talking books with me, and I spend six months trying to forget him. Until one night, he walks into my coffee shop with my name already on his lips, and suddenly, I can’t make my heart stop wanting things I know I can’t have.

Somewhere between bookish debates, quinceañera dance floors, and a Jeep the color of a pumpkin, I start letting myself believe.

But when Logan gets called up to the Majors in time for the World Series—the Fall Classic itself—everything changes.

He’s about to live the dream he’s chased his whole life.

I’ve limited mine to this sleepy Southern town.

It’s classic, all right.

Classic heartbreak.

The Fall Classic is a deliciously swoony, closed-door baseball rom-com with laugh-out-loud banter, slow-burn chemistry, small-town charm, and found family, all with no explicit content. Books in the Catching Feelings series can be read in any order.