Book 9 Of The Playlist Series: Rock And A Hard Place✅

They were supposed to be steady - baseball lights and love songs, late-night calls and inside jokes. But somewhere between tour buses and game schedules, studio sessions and the silence after fights, forever started to sound like pressure instead of promise.

Bronny Balholm, catcher for the Party Animals, lives for the roar of the crowd - but when the lights fade, he can't seem to catch the one thing that matters: Skylar Haven, the songwriter who once wrote every verse about him.

They've been swinging and missing - holding on, letting go, trying again. Until one midnight in Austin breaks them both. Her tears become lyrics. His guilt becomes the echo in her song, "Rock and a Hard Place."

Now the world sings their heartbreak, and they have to decide if love is worth rebuilding or if it's just another song that ends too soon.

A story of fame, forgiveness, and the quiet ache of almost-forever - where sometimes the only way to find your way back is to write the truth that broke you.