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Just for the Plot (Standard Edition)

by Meghan Quinn

Friendship, boundaries, and baseball

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    New York Times bestselling author

    The metadata describes Meghan Quinn as a New York Times bestselling author.

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Friendship, boundaries, and baseball

Set in San Francisco’s baseball world, the novel pairs Bennett Brinkman, a disciplined player, with Bower, his sister’s best friend. Their friendship is complicated by Bower moving into his apartment building and by the question of whether acting on their attraction could strain her loyalty to her friend. The setup brings together a familiar romance tension—friends crossing a line—with the specific stakes of close family ties and a shared social circle. Late-night book club confessions are part of the story’s frame, alongside the growing conflict between keeping things platonic and pursuing a relationship.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in contemporary sports romance with a baseball setting.
  • Those who enjoy friends-to-lovers plots and forbidden-attraction tensions.
  • Readers drawn to romances involving family ties, loyalty, and book-club conversations.

Themes

Friends-to-lovers romanceLoyalty and family tiesBoundaries and attractionBaseball

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Book overview

From New York Times bestselling author Meghan Quinn comes a spicy sports romance filled with late-night book club confessions, forbidden attraction, and one slow-burn love story that refuses to stay platonic.

They're just friends.

At least, that's what she thinks. Him? He has other plans.

Bennett Brinkman is San Francisco baseball's golden boy--focused, disciplined, and very bad at ignoring the one woman he shouldn't want. Falling for his sister's best friend was inevitable, even though she's always seen him as safe, familiar, and firmly off-limits.

Bower knows exactly why wanting Bennett is a terrible idea. She's fiercely loyal to her best friend and well aware that crossing this particular line could blow everything up. But when she moves into Bennett's apartment building, that "just friends" boundary begins to blur in the most tempting ways.

The banter comes fast.

The sparks come faster.

And pretending it's "no big deal" is getting ridiculous.

As feelings get messier and attraction turns undeniable, Bennett and Bower must decide if risking their family ties is worth chasing the love that's been in front of them all along.

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