“The baseball is impeccable and the chemistry is even better. If both the thwack of a ball hitting a glove and a thumb right on your pulse point get you going the same way, you have got to read Off Season.” —Alicia Thompson, USA Today bestselling author of The Art of Catching Feelings

When Valley Magnolia accepts a sports psychologist role with the San Francisco Seals, she knows it will mean contending with both her father’s legacy and her own grief: He was the baseball team’s pitching coach for decades, and even after his death, he looms large in the stadium. But it’s pitcher Cal Monte who catches Valley off-guard. As she treats the yips that have derailed his career, the two grow closer in a way that threatens to upend both of their lives.

Frankie Caracciolo is a writer raising a son in Brooklyn by way of Queens. A lifelong Mets fan, he knows something about loving what breaks your heart. Off Season is his debut novella.