Treat yourself to a sweet holiday romance and experience a version of one of my favorite Puerto Rican holiday traditions—la parranda– in one of my favorite cities…Chicago!
HOLIDAY HOME RUN features Julia Fernández, a cousin of my beloved Fernández sisters from the MATCHED TO PERFECTION series. Julia’s an event planner, in Chicago for an internship she hopes to turn into a full-time job. She’s ready to live on her own, out from under her familia’s expectations that she take over their catering business in Puerto Rico and away from their year-round baseball fever thanks to her three ball-playing brothers.
Ex-MLB pitcher Ben Thomas knows what it’s like to have different dreams than your family intends for you, but since his injury-caused early retirement, he’s been struggling to find the sense of family baseball once brought him. When he volunteers as the emcee for Julia’s big holiday fundraiser for a local youth center, he finally begins to find a sense of purpose working with the kids and alongside Julia.
She’s focused on organizing the best holiday event the youth center has ever seen, not on romance.
But Ben…he’s got a game plan for the two of them that includes both.
“Oliveras’s outstanding debut tangles romance into family life…The realistic, multifaceted characters have interesting nuances, and Oliveras never stoops to employing contrived misunderstandings, instead creating real obstacles with meaning and depth. Moving familial relationships and splashes of Puerto Rican culture round out this splendid contemporary and bode well for the future of the series.”
“Oliveras takes all the right steps in this sweet romance. Oliveras’ refreshing tale is the start of a very special trilogy… Packed with emotion, humor and memorable characters. Fans of Samantha Chase will enjoy this heart-tugging love story by a promising newcomer.”