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Strikeout

by Millie Perez

A household romance with a three-strikes rule

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A household romance with a three-strikes rule

A new job as nanny to a professional baseball player’s daughter puts Isabella Morales under the same roof as her boss, single father Mateo Martinez. Their arrangement comes with an unusual rule: three strikes, a framework that gives the book’s baseball imagery a role in the central romance. Both characters describe growing attraction alongside the boundaries and competing expectations of their employer-and-employee relationship. The setup brings together domestic life, parenting, and contemporary romance, with the Monarchs pitcher’s career providing the baseball backdrop. Isabella’s choice between keeping her feelings at a distance and taking a chance on love gives the story its central tension.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Contemporary romance readers interested in a nanny-and-boss relationship
  • Readers who enjoy single-parent characters and domestic settings
  • Baseball-romance readers looking for a professional-athlete backdrop

Themes

Workplace romanceSingle parenthoodAttraction and boundariesTaking a chance on loveBaseball

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Book overview

Mateo Martinez is many things. The starting pitcher of the New York Monarchs, a devoted single father, and most recently, my new boss.

 

When the opportunity to finally move out of my parent's cramped apartment and into his swanky home to nanny for his daughter arose, I simply couldn't pass it up.

 

Until I made the silly suggestion for him to keep me on a three strikes system, and I'm racking them up at lightning speed.

 

I should know better than to fantasize about silly things like love, but curiosity is getting the best of me, and our stolen touches don't feel so innocent anymore.

 

When the three strikes are up, I wonder... will I step up to the plate, or conform to living life on the sidelines?

 

 

Isabella Morales is toying with my self control. She's my daughter's nanny, a fact I often have to remind myself of when I'm around her.

 

Because the second she stepped into my world, it's been mayhem in my heart.

 

I've never had any interest in dating ever since my little girl came into my world. Never, not once. That is until Isabella came along and set my world on fire.

 

Because try as I might, I can't ignore her lingering stares, or the way she taunts me when she defies me at every turn.

 

Little does she know that we're playing the same game, by different rules. Because once I call three strikes, I'm claiming her as mine.

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