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At Rivermouth High, the social hierarchy is simple and unforgiving: you matter if you play a sport.
The football boys are worshipped by the student body, their jerseys a shortcut to popularity.
The basketball players are protected by teachers, praised in hallways, and excused for almost anything.
But the baseball boys?
They exist on an entirely different level.
With eight state championships in the last twelve years, Rivermouth baseball isn't just a team-it's an institution. The players are untouchable, admired, and treated like royalty. They walk the halls like they own them, and in a way, they do.
Annie Masters doesn't belong anywhere near that world.
She doesn't play sports. She doesn't want to. She spends her time collecting vinyl, painting in a hidden shed deep in the woods behind her house, and keeping her head down at school. Annie lives quietly, intentionally-until her home life collides with Rivermouth's most powerful dynasty.
When her brother-in-law, a former hometown baseball legend, is asked to take over as head coach, Annie is unwillingly pulled into the orbit of Rivermouth baseball. Suddenly, the drama she's spent years avoiding is everywhere-at dinner, in her classrooms, and in the hallways she once passed through unnoticed.
Especially in the form of Dylan Parker.
Dylan is charming, arrogant, and next in line to become Rivermouth's newest baseball god. He's everything Annie avoids-and everything she can't seem to ignore. What starts as a calculated move in a dangerous social game turns into something real, something messy, and something that threatens to destroy the one place Annie feels safe.
As baseball season begins and secrets unravel, Annie must decide how much of herself she's willing to risk in a world that devours girls like her-and whether love is worth stepping into the spotlight she never wanted.