Curveball

Baseball romance with swoony, angsty chemistry, but closed-door spice level.
Trope: he's broken/she's sunshine
One bad pitch can change the whole game
Not to mention your life....
Zach Hiller was an ace pitcher for the New York Yankees until the day he lost everything in a catastrophe that he now remembers painfully as "The Curveball Incident". Then, after two years of hiding from his past- spent mostly in Dublin, serving beer to tourists and throwing a stress ball against the walls of his messy apartment-his life goes up in flames once more, this time when an American named Emma Crawford walks into his pub and immediately takes to his tidy non-existence like a sunshine sledgehammer. How is he supposed to stay depressed, not to mention incognito, when this beautiful, stubborn, and funny woman is tearing down all his defenses?
Emma has it all, including a brand-new fiancé, degree, and opportunity to explore every corner of Ireland for a summer. But all it takes is one chance encounter with a mysterious and brooding bartender from Texas to make her start questioning everything she thought she knew about herself. Together they have enough problems to fill an ocean. So why is it impossible to even consider spending the summer apart?
Fans of Nicholas Sparks, who love an emotional punch in their books, but who secretly wish the characters wouldn't die and the HEAs were guaranteed, will love this book!