Every piece and part of this book was special and I found it difficult to put it down for anything. Bottom of the Ninth is absolutely one of my favorite books by author Jami Davenport. ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures
Description:
This long-awaited story of the third Wolfe brother introduces the Seattle Skookums baseball team.
Zeke Wolfe, the man who’s written off his entire family, rescues a young woman and three children on a stormy Seattle night. Before he knows it, he has an instant family and a fake fiancé he’s certain he doesn’t want.
Paisley Madison dreams of having a real home for herself and her sister’s children. When a handsome baseball player drops into her life, she knows a gift when she sees one and hires herself as his assistant.
As their business arrangement turns into something much more personal, Paisley and Zeke’s pasts threaten to destroy their precarious hold on a future together. Can they conquer their demons and find love, or will they run from their pasts and abandon their future together?
Review copy provided with no expectations
Wow, so Bottom of the Ninth was way more than I expected; emotional, heart-warming, and sexy
this story hit so many of my contemporary romance buttons. An emotionally unavailable man, a woman down on her luck, and three young children who have been through hell and back all made this book one spectacular story.
Traded to the bottom of the cellar Seattle Skookums, Zeke Wolfe is not happy to be back in Seattle where he’ll be in close proximity to the family he’d rather forget. Nor is he happy when he accidentally sprays a woman and three small children when he hits a pothole in the middle of the road; he can’t not stop when he realizes she’s obviously stranded, but what he doesn’t expect is to feel an attraction to the bedraggled woman or see so much of himself in the eyes of the three children in her care.
Paisley Madison is about at the end of her rope when her day goes from bad to worse, thankfully the man who sprayed her and her nieces and nephew stops to help and despite her reservations Paisley has no choice but to accept his help. She finds him intriguing and realizes that with his job as a MLB player he needs help organizing his life and his new home and she needs a job; a match made in heaven or a recipe for disaster?
There was so much going on in this story and the relationship could have been lost; but the bond between Zeke and Paisley was key to everything else going on. I loved watching Paisley and the kids worm their way into Zeke’s heart and while Paisley fully admits that she falls too fast and often for the wrong men, she sees something different in Zeke. Zeke fought his attraction to Paisley and he most certainly fought his feelings which made for some interesting internal struggles. The three precious children added a whole other dimension to not only their relationship, but with Zeke dealing with his family and his demons. While I love that the kids broke through his outer shell, I hated the reason they did so.
Every piece and part of this book was special and I found it difficult to put it down for anything. Bottom of the Ninth is absolutely one of my favorite books by author Jami Davenport.
4.5 stars
Thank you so much for reading and reviewing Bottom of the Ninth.
Sounds good. Thanks for the review Slick