What does every college athlete aspire to do? Play professionally, and Emily is no different. She has worked her entire life practicing, playing, and perfecting her golf game. She is at her peak performance; competing and winning college tournaments. She has a real chance of getting an offer to play professional women’s golf next year, but then she sustains an injury just before the start of the next season. Fortunately, the university has assigned each sports team a personal trainer. She will just see him for a few weeks and be good as new before the first tournament. Emily is determined that she will not let anything stand in her way of reaching her life’s goal.
What is more satisfying to a college student than graduating early with their desired degree? Erik has spent the last three years learning, studying, and preparing himself to become the best personal trainer possible. He has high hopes of working with a professional sports team one day but knows that it will take a lot of hard work and high recommendations from his upcoming internship. He was hoping to get assigned to the baseball team for his last semester internship but ended up with the girl’s golf team. Despite his initial hesitation with this assignment, he quickly adjusts and finds great satisfaction when he is able to reverse one of the girl’s injuries before the start of the season.
But what happens when the athlete and the trainer develop feelings for each other? It goes against the school policy for them to date. Do they wait out the rest of the semester? Do they date in secret? Is it best to just be friends? Can they just ignore their feelings? A serious relationship would interfere with both of their future plans. Is a chance at love worth the risk of changing all your dreams or is it just a long shot?
Josh never had an easy path in life. Abandoned by his mother as a child, then evicted from his home by his father as a teen, he learned survival skills at a young age. While sleeping in his high school to avoid living on the streets, he discovers his love of swimming and uses it as his ticket out of his current situation. He joins the high school swim team, excels in his events enough to earn a college scholarship, and leaves behind his days of homelessness.
Just when Josh feels like he has been given a chance at a better life, he faces another setback with a cancer diagnosis. He battles courageously, but alone, and sets himself back a year with his studies and swimming career. Josh, however, does as he always has, he picks himself up off the ground and begins again determined to end stronger and better. As he enters his last year of college, he is sitting on the cusp of reaching his lifelong dream of making it to the Olympic trials but learns the cancer has returned. It almost killed him to beat cancer the first time around all alone, he is fearful he can’t win the battle again.
Everyone has demons they have to face in their lives and Kate is no different. She finds that making one bad decision the night after learning of her fiances’ infidelity changes her life forever. She goes to a party and in an effort to forget all her pain, accepts a little white pill that turns her into an addict. It takes a lot of inner strength and perseverance on Kate’s part to not only admit she’s on a downward spiral but to seek the help she needs to climb back out of the hole she dug.
Kate finds that the hardest part of recovery is the need to surround yourself with support and positivity. Two things she is lacking in her life. The temptations and urges haunt her daily as she tries to pick up the pieces of her shattered life and start again. She tries to mend broken friendships, and start a new path for herself by going back to school.
Kate and Josh unexpectedly meet and form an instant friendship. They have both been fighting their own battles alone for so long, it is a welcomed change for them both to have someone to lean on in their time of need. As the friendship grows so do the feelings they each have for one another, and they both find themselves wanting more out of their relationship. Come and experience this heartwarming story of Josh and Kate as they explore what it means to make every second count.
Not all love stories begin with hearts and roses. Some don’t even start with a friendship. Sometimes a relationship originates as enemies. Chase and Megan knew each other only as each other’s nemesis on the field for several years. Playing on opposing teams at their college recreational softball summer and fall leagues, their rivalry and predictable standoffs became notorious among the other players.
Chase played baseball his entire life and anticipated furthering his baseball career at Wisconsin State University until he injured his arm his senior year of high school and had to give up on all his baseball aspirations. He focused his attention on his education but enjoyed playing recreational softball at the college with friends. There was only one problem with the rec league, and her name was Megan. She was a bossy, know-it-all, that knew she was an above-average player, and Chase loved to put her in her place every chance he got.
Megan was a collegiate softball pitcher for Wisconsin State University and loved the competitive season every Spring. However, she joined several of her teammates in the summer and fall seasons playing on the school’s recreational league to stay active and maintain her skills by playing ball as much of the year as possible. The only problem with these off-season teams was dealing with annoying and immature guys. Well, one in particular, Chase, who she had come to hate as he seemed to go out of his way to argue with her at every game.
However, some say there is a fine line between love and hate. Sometimes the line becomes blurred and one starts to see that the enemy isn’t really the enemy. With time, a friendship forms between Chase and Megan based on shared beliefs and values, and the more time they spend together, the more those new lines of friendship begin to blur again into something more.
Can someone that was once your nemesis become your greatest love? Is there such a thing as a divine intervention that pulls us to our soulmates? Can true love stand the test of time and distance? And what do love and softball have in common? Come find out in this beautiful story of Chase and Megan, and see if love is like the game of softball, where we are all waiting on The Perfect Pitch.
J.C. Poole 