She spent eighteen months watching the season from the press box — elevated, professional, untouchable. Then a rookie pitcher with exceptional judgment started asking the kind of questions that made distance impossible. Piper Aldrich came back to Harlow Bay to run her father's paper, not to feel anything about it. Eighteen months later, she's got the Gazette running exactly right — clean, professional, and covered from the press box sixty feet above everything that might make her lose her careful distance. Cody Baxter arrived in Single-A with a duffel bag and a fourteenth-round chip on his shoulder, determined to prove he belongs. He reads the local paper like he means it. He asks the kind of follow-up questions most people don't bother with. And somewhere between a hardware store aisle and a fork in the first-base concourse, he starts asking them about her. She's the journalist. He's the story. The line is clear — until a Double-A inquiry puts them both on the record at exactly the wrong moment, and the distance Piper has been calling professionalism stops looking like wisdom and starts looking like fear. This is a slow burn sweet romance about a woman learning to write from inside her own life, a pitcher learning that staying somewhere isn't the same as giving up, and a small coastal town that has a way of keeping the people who choose it. The Write Call is Book 2 in the Harlow Bay Romances series. Sweet and clean — no explicit content. Can be read as a standalone. Perfect for readers who love quiet slow burns, small-town community, and a love story that takes its time and earns every moment.