In The Spotlight - WLW

Book 3 of In The Margins Series! Can be read as a standalone!

Lucia Pierce has spent her entire life learning what it means to be great.

At twenty-four, she is one of the most talented college softball pitchers in the country, carrying a reputation that seems to grow with every game. Everyone expects her to succeed. Her coaches believe in her. Scouts are watching. Her family is endlessly proud of her. And Lucia knows just how lucky she is to have a life filled with people who love her unconditionally.

So why does it sometimes feel like she's drowning beneath it all?

Between a demanding final year of college, the pressure to prove herself on the mound, expectations for her future, and the constant fear of what happens if she isn't everything everyone believes she can be, Lucia has become an expert at keeping the harder parts of herself hidden.

Because being the best has always felt easier than admitting she's tired.

She's spent so long trying to balance everything - school, softball, her future, her family, and the expectations she's placed on herself - that somewhere along the way, she starts losing pieces of who she is.

And the worst part?

She doesn't know how to stop it.

She doesn't know how to ask for help. She doesn't know how to slow down. She doesn't even know who Lucia Pierce is when she isn't standing on a pitcher's mound, chasing the next win, the next record, the next expectation.

She's drowning beneath a life that looks perfect from the outside, slowly losing herself while pretending she has everything under control.

Nothing feels right anymore.

Until Addie.