All of Me: A Love Between the Bases Novel

Jennifer Bernard

May 2015 · Sold by HarperCollins

About this ebook

Jennifer Bernard, the USA Today bestselling author of the Bachelor Firemen series, scores another homerun with a brand-new series about sexy, single baseball players.

Playing for the Kilby Catfish is hotshot pitcher Caleb Hart's last chance to salvage his career after a major league meltdown. But the day of his opener with the minor league team, Caleb strikes out with the gorgeous woman who is delivering a petition to run the unruly Catfish out of town. Now, to stay in the lineup, Caleb will need to score big with the feisty brunette he can't keep out of his thoughts.

After the nasty lies Sadie Merritt's rich ex-boyfriend spread about her all over town, she's lucky to have a job at all. She can't afford to screw it up by falling for the player who is supposed to be helping her change the image of the fun-loving Catfish. But that's easier said than done when Caleb's voice alone is enough to make her pulse race. And when he surprises her with a mind-blowing kiss, she knows there's no turning back.

Ratings and reviews

All of Me, by Jennifer Bernard, is the first in her new Love Between the Bases series. The hero is Caleb Hart a pitcher for the Kilby Catfish, a triple A baseball team where he is hoping to regain a spot on a major league team. He is dealing with a lot of stress between sharing guardianship for his younger twin brothers with his college age sister and letting his on parole father live with him. The heroine is Sadie Merritt a down on her luck assistant to the mayor of Kilby, Texas. She had the guts to break up with her ex-boyfriend who was a member of a rich family who ruled the town. Sadie’s ex-boyfriend was not happy about being dumped so he spread nasty lies about her all over town and Sadie swears off men. Sadie and Caleb work together to get more of the town to support the baseball team. Through this time spent together they discover how much they share as well as how much they enjoy being together. Their chemistry is amazing and hard to ignore. I loved the way Bernard showed the growth of the relationship between these two characters as well as how they learn to trust each other. I also appreciated Sadie’s attempt to help Caleb out of a difficult situation, meeting he

All of Me is a bit different than your standard romance novel, though it follows the same general formula. What makes it stand out are the characters themselves, each dealing with very realistic and believable problems, even as their relationship together grows. Sadie’s a bit of a spitfire, and Caleb is incredibly generous in the way he puts his family first. If you love a good love story and really appreciate characters who don’t fall for every contrived bit of drama thrown their way, this one is definitely the book for you. ***FicCentral received this book from Harper Collins (via Edelweiss) for free in exchange for an honest review.

Great start to a new series from this author. Set around a minor league ball club in small town Kilby it has a great bunch of characters that I am sure will be reoccurring in upcoming books. Caleb and Sadie have a fun, sweet, and oh so sexy chemistry between them and you can definitely feel it throughout the story. While parts of the story are a bit outrageous and silly at times, overall it's a very good read. I definitely recommend it.

About the author

Jennifer Bernard is a graduate of Harvard and a former news promo producer. The child of academics, she confounded her family by preferring romance novels to... well, any other books. She left big city life for true love in Alaska, where she now lives with her husband and stepdaughters. She's no stranger to book success, as she also writes erotic novels under a naughty secret name not to be mentioned at family gatherings.