Out of My League
Sarah Sutton
Publication date: June 16th 2020
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult
It’s all fun and games until someone catches feelings.
Sophia Wallace is convinced her life is over when her high school cuts the journalism program. Without the elective, she loses her chance to intern with the biggest newspaper company in the county, and why? All because the baseball team needs more funding.
To make matters worse, her boyfriend publicly dumps her at a party, which is mortifying. But the icing on the cake is when the captain of the baseball team and the most popular guy at Bayview High, Walsh Hunter, decides to be chivalrous. He jumps in, throws his arm around Sophia, and declares his undying love for her. In front of everyone.
Suddenly, Sophia is thrown into a world of fake relationships and undercover journalism, and she realizes she’s way, way out of her league.
Good thing she’s got the team captain to teach her how to play.
But faced with choosing between saving her journalism class or her newfound feelings for Walsh, will she strike out or hit a home run?
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Playlist for OUT OF MY LEAGUE
I’m not usually one to make a playlist for my stories as I write them, but after I finished this story, so many songs stuck out to me. So many songs made me stop and think, “This is so a Sophia and Walsh song!”
- “I Like Me Better” by Lauv
- “Somebody To You” by The Vamps
- “Call You Mine” by Chainsmokers ft. Bebe Rexha
- “This Kiss” by Carly Rae Jepsen
- “For a Boy” by Raelynn
- “Blame It On September” by Allstar Weekend
- “Last Kiss” by Taylor Swift
- “With You” by Mokita
- “Speechless” by Dan + Shay
- “Poison & Wine” by The Civil Wars
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EXCERPT:
Staring at his face, I noticed a faint, silvery scar underneath his right eye, as small as my thumbnail. I reached out with my free hand, tracing my fingertip along his skin. A featherlight touch, barely there. “What happened here?”
His gaze never left mine. “Baseball cleat. Fourth grade. One of my teammates threw it at me.”
“Some little league kid threw their shoe at you? Why?”
“I told him that he couldn’t bat very well.” Walsh shrugged. “He couldn’t take the truth.”
I snorted. “You were that kid? The dream crusher?”
“Well, someone had to be.” His small smile was unapologetic. “Ask me who the kid was.”
I looked at him for a moment before tipping my head. “No way. Scott?”
“Who else would be that aggressive as a fourth-grader?”
Dina pulled at my arm as I laughed, shaking my head at the thought of miniature Scott throwing a shoe at small Walsh. I stepped out from the tangle of leashes at our feet, glancing down. “Oh, your poor rich-boy shoes.”
“What?” Walsh looked at his feet. “Oh.”
Brown smeared the side of his expensive-looking shoe, probably coating along the bottom. “With dogs around, you should probably watch where you’re walking.”
Walsh let go of my hand to switch the leash and proceeded to try and smear the offensive substance onto the grass. “Now you tell me.”
“Should we clean the poop off your shoe together? Is that romantic?”
His response was dry. “Ha-ha.”
“What? Shouldn’t we get a photo and caption it, ‘This might’ve been an accident, but falling in love wasn’t’?”
“Watch it, or I’ll wipe it on your ankle.”
I jerked back just in case he tried it, nearly tripping over Dina’s wealth of leash.
Author Bio:
Sarah Sutton is a YA Romance author, bringing you stories about teenagers falling in love (sometimes with magic)She spends her days dreaming up ideas with her two adorable puppies by her side being cheerleaders (and mega distractions).
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Congratulation on the book release. Thanks for the giveaway
Oh gosh.. Reading this made me reminisce on my own childhood “romances”. This sounds really good whether you’re in middle school or even as an adult..
As the old saying goes, love makes the world go round!
Been there, wore the Tshirt till it was so old I used it for polishing furniture!
i really like the book cover
Sounds like a wonderful read!
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This sounds like a terrific YA read. This has a lovely cover
Finally!!! I am so happy to see this book out! and looking forward to having the chance to read her. Congrats!
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Sounds like a very good read.
I love the softball part of the blurb with the cleat throwing. This book sounds great! Love the cover too <3
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