Kate Angell writes the perfect romance books. There is heat, love and humor. None of her characters take themselves too seriously. Ms. Angell also has a knack for writing stories that move quickly, but still allow the reader to fall for the characters and to believe that a romance is actually building. Her characters in this book do not fall in love at first sight. Rather, their relationship takes time to build.
Joe Zooker is the left fielder for the Richmond Rogues and has an ego to go with his major league career. He knows that he does well with the ladies and doesn’t mind his one-night stand reputation. He never plans to get married so settling down isn’t on his radar. Then he meets a woman who seems to want nothing to do with him. Suddenly the chase becomes about more than just one night.
Stevie Reynolds is home to help her aunt with her doggie day care. Her aunt fell and broke her leg so Stevie and her best friend, Lori, arrive to help. Stevie doesn’t expect to run into Joe nor to find herself attracted to him. She promised her cousin that she would stay away from all ball players, but Joe keeps showing up in the places she is. His pursuit is rather hard to resist.
Both Stevie and Joe have reasons to be suspicious of their attraction to each other. They also have other things on their minds. Stevie is concerned about her aunt and Joe is looking at the players coming up from the minors. Ms. Angell gives them time to figure out each other and their relationship. She doesn’t make things easy for them and gives them challenges.
For those of you familiar with Ms. Angell’s <i>Barefoot William Beach</i> series, this book will include some familiar characters. For those of you who are picking up one of Ms. Angell’s books for the first time, you will have no trouble understanding the setting of this book. It can truly stand on its own. I can’t wait to see what Ms. Angell has in store for her next book.

I really wanted to like this book, i loved the cover and the blurb, but once I started it, I was so disappointed. The main reason, I didn't like Joe, right from the beginning I found him to be an arrogant, ladish bloke, who the author did nothing to show his softer side, gave up after 4 chapters...just couldn't read anymore

Another fanatastic book in the Richmond Rogues series! Kate Angell is awesome as always. She makes you feel like you are in the book. Barefoot William is an awesome town and has towns people are just great.

This book is about Stevie and Joe. Stevie is in town helping her Aunt run her dog spa business named Unleashed. Joe is in town for spring training for the Richmond Rogues. Stevie is a very sweet, romantic that loves her family. Joe is a player on and off he field. He had a bad child hood and doesn't do commitment.

Stevie and Joe meet on the board walk during Bridal Event. Stevie being the romantic she is, is experiencing everything. She even try's on a custom garter. Joe being himself sees a nice pair of legs and decides to flirt. Stevie knows Joe and his reputation because her cousin is a minor league player vying for Joes spot on the Majors team. Stevie is rude and leaves after they have words. Stevie doesn't realize that she is still wearing the garter. The owner see her leaving and calls for security and tells them Stevie is trying to steal. Joe lets it go on for a minute but he intervenes. The security guard recognizes Joe and he tells him that Stevie is his woman. They offer to pay for the garter and they are able to leave without Stevie getting arrested. Stevie and Joe go their seperate ways but keep bumping into each other at the event.

Even though Stevie isn't seeing anyone she enters a drawing for a wedding photo shoot because she won't win. The remainder of the day Stevie and Joe continue to run into each other. Joe continues to hit on Stevie and make suggestive remarks and she continues to be snippy and unaffected. Joe is attracted to Stevie because she basically ignores him and his moves don't work on her. Stevie is also attracted to Joe but will not act on it because of her cousin.

Stevie and Joe have great chemistry and find theirselves in funny situations during this book.'this is a sweet,'sexy and funny book about two people finding love.

I received a free copy for an honest review.

This was a fun beach read. It was sexy and cute. I liked the incorporation of baseball and dogs and cupcakes! The chemistry between Stevie and Joe was hot and flirtatious.

If you’ve read any of Kate Angell’s Barefoot Williams’ series before, you know what you’re going to get: a charming read with an interesting, maybe insecure, heroine; a hunky, athletic hero; fun animals; and short, choppy sentences that sometimes lack subjects. And it’s all in a delightful, summery setting that just makes you want to kick back on the beach and enjoy the weather and the book. That’s exactly what you get in this newest entry.

Joe Zooker is a star left-fielder on the Richmond Rogues who has vowed never to settle down with just one woman. Instead he has a party posse of babes who are happy to hang with him as a harem of available women. He notices Stevie at a weird sort of wedding fair of products appealing to prospective brides and tries to pick her up. But she’s not interested in such a player. They keep meeting up in and eventually they’re both living at her aunt’s house which is the most wonderful doggie day-care place that anyone could imagine. While his Rottweiler falls for her cousin’s bulldog in a sweet doggie romance, Joe falls for her.

It’s all very charming and sweet like the other books in the series. If you don’t mind a guy who has a party posse of babes one day and then is hankering after the heroine the next day, then you’ll thoroughly enjoy this book.

I was given a free ARC of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Loved it and hated it. The posse thing with the group sex was what lowered my rating. By all means if you're into things like that it wouldn't be a bad rating for you but it is not what J expected or hoped for when requesting to read this book. Nonetheless the writing was superb and had a great storyline minus a few things.

Joe is just so cocky, “yeah, you do.” He was so self-assured. “You expected me to kiss you within the first ten minutes. Give it time, babe. Anticipation. Sexual psych.” There are times I think Stevie just wants to secretly ogle her man, “That’s the only way you’ll get one.” He jumped off the bed. Stalked her. Nude, semi-erect, and hungry-eyed. He evaluated the cupcakes, gave each his full attention..." I really liked this book, I loved Joe.

This book is tough to review because on one hand I loved it but on the other hand I was kinda grossed out by it too. That said the writing was terrific and the characters were interesting and I really enjoyed the characters and the storyline.

So why was I grossed out? Well Joe/Zoo is this baseball player and he is into easy/casual sex. Which I have no problem with. One nighters, manwhores I m okay with and if thats who he was well I would not have a problem. But he has what he calls a Posse. Which is sorta like groupies but they also have sex all the time with easy other with 3 somes with sharing each other, with nfront of each other. He even goes to a party and they have naked water polo. While he never partakes in this in the story except for letting them touch him. I found it very icky.And he even offers these women to his friends/teammates.

That said beyond that it was a terrific story and he is a wonderful guy. He and Stevie have this wonderful chemistry and I really loved all the characters in the story. It was just the whole Posse thing and the group sex mentioned and how he let his posse touch him that was a major turn off.

Joe "Zoo" Zooker plays left field for the Richmond Rogues baseball team. Zoo is a player with women too. He has a posse of women that follow him around. He has a rule, one night only, no commitment. He comes to Stevie Reynolds rescue but she is not remotely interested in his flirting. She is not impressed with him at all and doles out sass and snarky come backs to him. He may have met his match.

This is part of a series but could be read as a stand alone book. I loved Stevie's attitude. There were some funny lines in this book and Joes t shirts were a hoot. Thank you to net galley for an advanced readers copy.

What a cute,sizzling, and romantic story. Joe and Stevie fight each other every step of the way and that makes for a very entertaining read. The humor and snarkiness that appears in Stevie's vocabulary every time the saw each other made this story flow fast. They both needed to realize what they actually wanted before they could be happy; it wasn't always what they thought so sparks definitely fly. I cannot wait for these stories to continue. Thank You NetGalley and Kate Angell for allowing me to read this book and give an honest review.

Loved this book. It's about time Zoo got his come upance. This was so much fun I didn't want it to end. Kate is such an amazing author and all her books are keepers.