Curveball
Publisher: Independent
Release Date: June 5, 2026
Genre: Romance/Fiction
Welcome to Primrose Hill, where the James Family isn’t just part of the community—they’re the heart of it all.
He chased his dream.
She walked away to protect hers.
Now they’ll have to say everything they never did.
A career-threatening injury sends professional baseball player Walker James back to the one place—and the one woman—he never really left behind: Farrah King.
Forced into close proximity while he rehabs his elbow and questions his future in the game, old feelings resurface alongside unresolved hurt—and a chemistry neither of them ever really lost.
Farrah has spent years rebuilding her life with careful intention. Now a divorced single mother and successful interior designer, she’s created stability for herself and her daughter by keeping her emotions and her world tightly controlled.
It’s been nine years since she walked away when his rising baseball career began reshaping her life in ways she never chose. As Walker’s world expanded beyond their small town, Farrah struggled to imagine where she fit inside it. Leaving felt like the only way to build something that truly belonged to her—even if it meant walking away from the man she loved.
Now, with Walker’s career in limbo and their chemistry impossible to ignore, being together feels both inevitable and dangerous. Walker is afraid to ask Farrah for a future she once couldn’t accept. Farrah hesitates to voice fears she’s spent years learning to manage alone. As unspoken assumptions and old patterns resurface, they find themselves standing at the same crossroads that once pulled them apart.
But as the line between past and present begins to blur, they’re forced to confront a harder question: is risking their hearts again worth unraveling the lives they’ve built apart?
Second chances don’t work without honesty.
And love only survives when both people are brave enough to stay.
Brittany Storm
Brittany Storm lives in the beautiful Texas Hill Country, where horses have been a part of her life for over twenty years. An avid rider and competitor in the hunter/jumper show ring, she’s currently training and competing with a young horse of her own.
When she’s not at the barn or writing, Brittany enjoys life with her husband, two young kids, and her dog. After losing her mom a few years ago to cancer, she found solace in romance novels and loved escaping into their world, so much so that she decided to start writing stories of her own.
Her stories celebrate family, horses, and the kind of love that makes life feel a little sweeter.
Learn more about this author here!
Nine years ago she chose to walk away, knowing the life he wanted was not the one she thought that they'd have after college. He went on to play baseball and become famous, while she created a quiet and successful life for herself in Primrose Hill. But now an injury has brought him home to heal and back into her life... a life she has made sure had nothing to do with him. But maybe that'll change...
The pages of Curveball bring us into to the lives of two people who found love a long time ago and thought they had the future all figured out, but then the big leagues came calling and Walker decided to answer the call, and she chose to stay. He never forgot the girl who claimed his heart all those years ago, and now he wants to fix what they broke back then. He knows she moved on, created the life she wanted, but now he wants to be a part of it. Question is is there room for him in it and can they forgive one another for the past? So much time has passed, there's a lot of hurt to heal, and both wonder is the love still there?
When I read the synopsis for this book something in those few little paragraphs grabbed ahold of me and wouldn't let go... I just had the feeling it was going to be one of those books. The ones that hit you straight in the heart and make you feel every word printed on the page. The kind that linger long after the last page finds you, the ones that call to you every time you have to put it down... and boy was I right. This book completely wrecked me in all the best ways. I was in a reading funk and needed something new and I found everything I was craving between the pages of this book!! It was utterly captivating! It's wonderfully penned words stirred up an addiction I couldn't shake and it left my heart better than it found it!! It was one of the best reads I have settled down with so far this year. If you have the opportunity to read this book I highly encourage you to take a chance on it, it's characters will steal your heart and attention the moment they wander onto the page!! It is SO good!!
I requested an advanced copy of this title from the publisher and I am voluntarily leaving my honest and unbiased opinion.
The publisher, via personal request
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