A funny, suspenseful second-chance tennis romance with a touch of mafia chaos.
Love and Other Racquets is a second-chance romance about a champion tennis player, a mob boss's son, and the seven years of silence between them.
Cece Barton's heart stopped for four minutes at the French Open. When she woke up, she quit everything—her career, her coach, her carefully constructed life—and hid in her late grandmother's lake house with a bottle of wine and no plan. She did not expect Vince Amato to be mowing her lawn.
He's not just any landscaper. He's Honey, the boy she loved and abandoned seven years ago without a word.
Moving between past and present, the novel follows the summer Cece and Vince fell in love as teenagers in Crystal Lake, and the messy, charged reunion that happens when two people who hurt each other are suddenly sharing the same zip code again. Vince left behind a criminal family to build something honest. Cece left behind Crystal Lake to build something invincible. Neither of them quite managed it.
Funny, sharp, and genuinely tender, Love and Other Racquets blends romantic comedy, sports romance, and mob thriller—with a lot of banter, a little baking, and two people slowly working out whether the versions of themselves they've become can still fit together.
