Home Stand

A Casual-to-Commitment Baseball Romance

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Genres

Slow Burn, Baseball Romance, Steamy Romance, Office Romance, Erotic Romance, Contemporary, and Novellas

Trigger Warnings

Sex

Type of Ending

Series

Lana Wrexler After Dark — Book 14

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Publication Date

Jul 31, 2026

Page Length

140 pages

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Home Stand

A Casual-to-Commitment Baseball Romance

Published Copy

Blurb

Neither of them has ever said the word girlfriend out loud.

Every home stand for a year and a half, the same woman shows up at the same bar, and goes home with him, and is gone before the coffee finishes brewing, and neither of them has ever said the word girlfriend out loud. Michael "Crew" Boone has a batting average the whole city can recite and a real first name that exactly three people are trusted with, and Wynn Marsh isn't one of them, not yet, because the one thing she's never done is ask what he does for a living. Then a trade deadline and a job offer in another city arrive in the same week, both of them sitting on a clock they've never told the other about, and the situationship that was supposed to be safe because it was small turns out to be the thing neither of them can survive losing. Situationship, secret identity of the sweetest kind, a workplace-adjacent slow burn between two people who each learned the hard way that wanting less means nobody can take more.

Content:

Heat: 5 out of 5
HEA
18+

Details

Genres

Slow Burn, Baseball Romance, Steamy Romance, Office Romance, Erotic Romance, Contemporary, and Novellas

Trigger Warnings

Sex

Type of Ending

Series

Lana Wrexler After Dark — Book 14

Series Read Order

Reading prior books is not required

Author Prefers A Review On

Goodreads or Amazon

Reader Spots Remaining

Number of days to read

Publication Date

Jul 31, 2026

Page Length

140 pages

Available Formats

ePub and PDF

Author

Lana Wexler writes contemporary romance with the door left open and the lights left on. Two people, sometimes three, one situation nobody can walk out of, and heat that fogs the glass: that's the whole job description. She's a sucker for fast burns, filthy banter, competent people who lose the plot the second they're wanted, and happy endings earned both in bed and out of it.

A reformed divorce paralegal, she spent a decade watching love fall apart on paper and decided to spend the rest of it putting love back together on purpose. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with a rescue dog who judges her word count and a to-be-read pile with its own weather system. When she isn't writing, she's rereading the good parts.

Her After Dark books are standalones, best read under a blanket with the door locked. New ones land often. Follow Lana on Amazon so the next one finds you.