Women's Work

"Sweet, crazy, and believable!"—Reader KS

Sportswriter Katie McIntyre thinks star pitcher Jason Price will be the perfect fling, a one-night stand to help her forget her cheating ex. Their hook-up is supposed to end with breakfast—but the coronavirus has other plans.

When Katie unexpectedly becomes her grandmother’s full-time caretaker, the disoriented elderly woman believes Jason is Katie’s devoted beau. Desperate, Katie pitches a pretend relationship to the star athlete. Jason knocks the fake-boyfriend ball out of the park. 

Before long, the couple’s increasingly real alliance is tested by disastrous cooking, adult-themed donuts, and an irascible hairless cat. Worst of all, COVID quarantine magnifies one tiny secret (Katie’s) and one small lie (Jason’s.) With a relationship built on false pretenses, how do Katie and Jason avoid striking out?

Previously published as The C Word.

The Women's Work Series includes:

Katie McIntyre Hits a Home Run

Jennifer Price Lives a Charmed Life

Emily Holcomb Bakes a New Cake

If you like romantic women's fiction (or romantic comedy or romcom or rom com) with sports like baseball and an athlete hero, especially ones with a fake relationship—an actual fake engagement—and a hot one-night stand (you know, a fling or a hook up) all set during the coronavirus (COVID) pandemic and its quarantine (lockdown), then this is the book for you!