Curve Ball is the third story in the Curvy Girl series. It is a short, steamy, standalone story with a curvy heroine, a sexy hero, and an HEA.LucyMy teacher life is my only life. Every day I’m pleasant, logical, and respectable except for one night when I let my passions free.Now it’s back to the real world, and I’m determined to leave it—and him—in the past.But that becomes impossible when he … past.
But that becomes impossible when he shows up at the school where I teach. Rhett Hartigan is everything I’m not. He’s popular, outgoing, and a player, literally.
A secret part of me wants to award his buns in those baseball pants my personal cuma sum laude.
The other part of me worries—do I let fear win and stick to my boring life, or do I take a chance on love?
Rhett
As a pro baseball player, I’m used to living a big life. After an injury benches me for a year, I take a temporary job as a coach in my old home town. My plan is to get better and get out.
But life throws me a curve ball when I discover my high school crush works at the same school. Lucy Santarosa is sweet, sexy, and has no idea her bases are loaded.
When I get an unexpected offer, do I go back to my “big life” or do I try for a home run here in Fairview?
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This was so cute.
Ive got a soft spot for baseball.
But Rhett and Lucy didnt need it.
Best friends brother is seriously one if the best concepts. I loved their chemistry from beginning to end. I wish i could get an epilogue…
I would highly recommend.
Happy reading!
Rating 5 stars
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Lucy has children’s her heart for the past 10 years. She’s been in love with her best friend‘s older brother. But when they were in high school things kind of took a turn off for the worse when he went to go play professional ball and left her. Fast forward basically 10 years later, he has an injury he’s at his sisters wedding and he’s looking for Lucy. Rhett is hoping that he can fix the mistakes that he has created 10 years ago when he went to go print play professional ball. Lucy is doubtful and she has blonde in the background for so long it’s hard for her to come back into her own self. Rhett knows he has his work cut out for him. but is he ready to make the change and to prove to her she is all he needs? No cliffhanger as we round all the bases.
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Rhett didn’t realize when he took another direction he would be making a wrong decision. Now, ten years later he’s not letting Lucy out of gis life. He just has to prove to her that he’s sticking around.
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This is the third book in the series that I have read as part of the ARC program with this author. Although it is a standalone, I like reading the stories of each of the girls. This one might be my favorite since the author made the story take place over time instead of making instant. This is the story of Lucy, who is a teacher and Rhett, her best friend’s brother who has just started coaching at her school. Yet there has been a flirtation and more between them for years and now they are at the same place they are trying to figure out if they might have a future.
Teens in love reunite 10 years later. She is a school teacher and he is an injured baseball player and they are still in love. She has to let her guard down and he has to prove that he is back for good. Their relationship grow and matures and I loved that they were able to talk their problems.
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Rhett, Emmy’s older brother (read book #2 in the series), is a professional baseball player who shows up for Berkley’s wedding (see book #1 in the series). Lucy, the best friend of Emmy and Berkley, is also there to do her part as a Bridesmaid. However, she’s not having a great time until something happens and Rhett steps in. From there, it’s the back and forth between Lucy being insecure and not trusting that Rhett is serious about her. Rhett is serious about her, but doesn’t always make it absolutely clear to Lucy.
I liked this book a lot! No cheating, HEA, and no cliffhangers!! A great happy ending for the series!!
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All Bases Safely Cleared
The only curves in this short story are the curves found on the main female character. The main male character has little problem wending his way around the main female character’s curves. In fact, he hits a home run. Together they safely clear all the bases and find their home with each other. A long time coming but they finally attain their happily ever after.
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I liked this story a lot. The characters were interesting and relatable. I liked Lucy and Rhett as well as the supporting characters.
Lucy is a teacher and leads a respectable, normal boring life. One night she lets her past desires out, but just for one night and then she goes back to her regular life. Unfortunately for Lucy, her past is now in her present when Everett (Rhett) shows up as the new coach as the school where she teaches. She has always wanted to be with Rhett, but he’s her opposite and she knows that he will leave again.
Rhett was used to living large as a pro baseball player. After he’s injured he meets up with his sisters’ friend Lucy, and his one time crush, but she ghosts him after one night. When Rhett finds out that his pro career is over, he takes a job as a coach and Lucy just happens to work at the same school. He decides that now she can’t run away so he is going to pursue her and show her how great they can be together.
I liked Lucy’s friends and how supportive and fun they were. Rhett seemed to grow into a better man the longer he was coaching. I liked that Rhett didn’t care what anyone thought about him and Lucy being together, including Lucy. Their happy ever after made me smile. I recommend reading this book.
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Very good short romance
Very good romance with characters who face not a second chance but a third chance because one and the other were afraid to take risks.
When Lucy, a teacher, finds herself again in front of Rhett that 10 years before, she had kissed then he had fled, she decides without him without him knowing it, that it will be only one night, then it’s her turn to disappear.
When he then works with her, Rhett will do anything to convince her that he will stay.
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Coach and Teacher – Wonderful Combination! This story is short but very lovable. This is about Lucy and Rhett. Lucy is the high school teacher and while at a wedding of one of her friends, the brother of her BFF, Rhett, shows up and they spend the night together. They have both had feelings for each other, but never proclaimed them, so this was supposed to be a one-night stand. Rhett is a professional baseball player that is out of the league due to an injury and while staying at his parents, he decides to go to the wedding of his sisters’ friend and meets up with Lucy.
He is determined to make this work now because he left without saying goodbye the last time, they saw each other. Months pass by after their one-night stand and the start of school is upon them and during the first day when the teachers all get together, some of the other women state that there is a new coach and that he is hot…she soon realizes that its him and he only has eyes for her. She may be nice and curvy, but she still has the hots for him and him for her! The story takes off from there and it has its funny parts as well…LOVE IT!
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Good book! Lucy has been in love with Rhett since high school. They had one encounter before he ran off to a high powered baseball career. But they reconnect at a wedding, and Rhett has his work cut out to prove to Lucy that he’s sincere, that this time he won’t cut and run. I love that although she loves him, Lucy won’t cut Rhett any slack. This is a fun, sexy book, and a great end to the trilogy.
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Curve Ball by C.L. Cruz is a great short read.interesting,captivating,sweet,fun and steamy second chance at love romance story of Rhett and Lucy, a pro baseball player and a teacher romance story that will captured your heart,love and enjoy,loved it! well done!
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Sports romance with a BBW. Good read and romance. Hope to read more from this author and about these characters.
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An absolutely fantastic engaging page turner that will draw you in from the first page and hold you captivated until the end! It is well written, emotionally deep, funny, and quite enjoyable. Likeable characters; the chemistry between them is amazing. A recommended read!
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As usual CL wrote a sweet and sexy story. I’m happy Lucy found her happy with her long time love. I loved everything about the story except it was too short. I’m already feenin’ for next CL story. Until next time y’all happy reading.
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Loved this story. A best friend’s older brother romance. Lucy and Rhett have known each other forever and she has always had a crush on him. They meet up again at his sister’s wedding and have what she thinks is one night. She is wrong, he wants more. Will he be able to convince her that he is there to stay and that she is the one for him? You will have to read it and find out.
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What do you get when you mix an out-of-work pro baseball player with the girl he left behind? You get some major drama, on and off the field. Rhett wants to show Lucy he’s serious about their relationship now but she is ambivalent. Having been apart for ten years, Lucy is very suspicious of Rhett’s attitude and demeanor. Can she trust him now after all his track record wasn’t good. It’s easy to understand Lucy’s feelings. Author did a fantastic job relating the personal struggles of a sports player of giving up any sort of personal life in order to be a pro. Lucy has focused on her teaching job though she does feel more lonely just as Rhett comes back into her life.
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So cute! Lucy is sick of guys leaving her, well one guy especially, Rhett who went off to the pro s in baseball. He is back to get her. Such a sweet story, steamy and romantic. Rhett is the hot alpha male, and Lucy the curvy girl guys leave. There is lots of action, great support characters and a special happy ending. A wonderful addition to the curvy series from C L Cruz. Really enjoying this series.
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The storyline was well written and the characters were so well defined that as I turned each and every page I felt like Lucy and Rhett pulled me right into their story as it unfolded!
this was the third book in this series of a group of ladies looking for love. at the end of book 2 we see rhett and lucy together at the wedding, so i knew something was going on between them. it was a second chance type romance as lucy had to overcome her fears of losing the man she was in love with over his love of the game. rhett knew he had something to prove this time around and it was a sweet romance to see them work through it.