Chris Paynter

Playing for First (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Lisa Collins feels she has it all as an Indianapolis sportswriter covering the city's minor league baseball team and as a freelancer for the newspaper. Her best friend, bar owner Frankie Dunkin, helps keep her grounded and sane. Her life is uncomplicatedthat is until Amy Perry enters her world.

Amy, the all-star first baseman for a professional women's baseball team, dreams the dream most boys doto play in the major leagues. The Cincinnati Reds are about to give her that chance.

While covering Amy's ascent through the minor league system, the out-and-proud Lisa finds herself falling for the closeted first baseman. But as they begin a relationship, something unexpected happens: Lisa realizes her feelings for Frankie run much deeper than a friendship.

With Amy facing harassment from her male teammates in her quest to break through the gender barrier, Lisa is torn between supporting her and exploring her feelings toward Frankie. Frankie has her own demons to face as painful physical and emotional scars from her past haunt her.

Despite the myriad conflicting emotions raging in Lisa's life, one thing is clearFrankie and Amy are Playing for First in her heart.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chris Paynter
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781942204022
• Artikelnr.: 47099501

Autorenporträt

Chris Paynter is the author of nine novels, including the Playing for First baseball series. Her Survived by Her Longtime Companion was a 2013 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in lesbian romance and winner of the 2013 Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award. Her short stories have appeared in two anthologies: Women in Uniform: Medics and Soldiers and Cops, Oh My! (2010), published by Regal Crest, and Love Burns Bright: A Lifetime of Lesbian Romance (2013), published by Cleis Press. After earning a bachelor degree in journalism, Chris worked as a general assignment reporter and sportswriter until accepting her current position as the managing editor to three law journals. A sports junkie, you can find her screaming at the TV during an Indianapolis Colts game or living vicariously through her Cincinnati Reds. She resides in Indianapolis with her wife, Phyllis, and their beagle, Princess Eleanor. When not writing or editing books, Chris loves to get lost in a good romance.