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Caught Looking: A Friends-to-Lovers Sports Romance Filled with Heartbreak, Heat, and Healing
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Expected 16 Jun 26Sun-soaked days. Electric nights. And a love that might be worth the fall.
Welcome back to Mango Bay where the heat is relentless, the music is loud, and the players are impossible to resist. It’s baseball… but better.
Sloan Barrett knows what it takes to survive in a man’s world. As a former pro football kicker, she’s built her life on grit, talent, and never taking anyone’s crap. But when a career-ending injury sidelines her for good, everything she’s worked for comes crashing down. As if that isn’t enough, she discovers her boyfriend is cheating on her. The only problem? He’s also her boss, and escaping him might cost her everything.
Jax Calder has always been the easygoing one. The smiling, carefree pitcher everyone loves. The guy who dances without hesitation, lifts everyone up, and never lets the darkness show. But when his past baseball experiences haunt him, he realizes pretending is too hard.
According to her, they weren’t supposed to matter to each other.
Not like this.
According to him, this was exactly how it was meant to be.
What starts as an unlikely friendship with late nights, shared secrets, and quiet understanding, turns into something deeper. Something neither of them is ready for. Because while Jax falls fast and hard, Sloan is still picking up the broken pieces of her life, her grief, and her trust.
And love? Love was never part of her plan.
But in Mango Bay, where emotions run high and nothing stays simple, they’re grit is put to the test.
A messy, emotional newfound friends-to-lovers romance filled with grief, healing, and undeniable chemistry, because sometimes the hardest battles aren’t played on the field… but in the heart.
Welcome back to Mango Bay where the heat is relentless, the music is loud, and the players are impossible to resist. It’s baseball… but better.
Sloan Barrett knows what it takes to survive in a man’s world. As a former pro football kicker, she’s built her life on grit, talent, and never taking anyone’s crap. But when a career-ending injury sidelines her for good, everything she’s worked for comes crashing down. As if that isn’t enough, she discovers her boyfriend is cheating on her. The only problem? He’s also her boss, and escaping him might cost her everything.
Jax Calder has always been the easygoing one. The smiling, carefree pitcher everyone loves. The guy who dances without hesitation, lifts everyone up, and never lets the darkness show. But when his past baseball experiences haunt him, he realizes pretending is too hard.
According to her, they weren’t supposed to matter to each other.
Not like this.
According to him, this was exactly how it was meant to be.
What starts as an unlikely friendship with late nights, shared secrets, and quiet understanding, turns into something deeper. Something neither of them is ready for. Because while Jax falls fast and hard, Sloan is still picking up the broken pieces of her life, her grief, and her trust.
And love? Love was never part of her plan.
But in Mango Bay, where emotions run high and nothing stays simple, they’re grit is put to the test.
A messy, emotional newfound friends-to-lovers romance filled with grief, healing, and undeniable chemistry, because sometimes the hardest battles aren’t played on the field… but in the heart.
284 pages, Kindle Edition
Expected publication June 16, 2026
About the author
Harper Rae James
6 books50 followersI write spicy, emotion-forward romance for readers who crave longing, second chances, and love that refuses to stay buried.
My stories live in the quiet space between almost and always, where feelings simmer, restraint fractures, and intimacy is earned. Expect mutual pining, he-falls-first energy, and heat that hits harder becasue it means something.
If you love slow burns with real payoff, characters who ache before they heal, and stories that linger long after the last page, you're in the right place.
New here?
Start with This Can’t Be The End— the book readers fall into first.
Readeing Order: This Can't Be the End-- This Time Around--This Christmas-- This Secret Between Us
My stories live in the quiet space between almost and always, where feelings simmer, restraint fractures, and intimacy is earned. Expect mutual pining, he-falls-first energy, and heat that hits harder becasue it means something.
If you love slow burns with real payoff, characters who ache before they heal, and stories that linger long after the last page, you're in the right place.
New here?
Start with This Can’t Be The End— the book readers fall into first.
Readeing Order: This Can't Be the End-- This Time Around--This Christmas-- This Secret Between Us
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