The Third Baseman

The New York Lions, Book 1

De: Lulu Moore

Narrado por: Mia Madison, Patrick Zeller

My name is Jupiter Reeves, and I am a fraud.

It's not that what's written about me isn't true. I am the greatest third baseman of my generation, possibly ever. I am surly and unapproachable. I do have a constant scowl with an armor of tattoos.

To the outside world, I play my role as the bad boy of baseball like I was born to do it. But when the doors are closed, and you boil it down, I'm nothing more than a man who lost his heart too young, with no prospect of getting it back... especially as I still have no idea where its current owner is.

That was until I was offered an opportunity I couldn't refuse: Leave the Los Angeles Dodgers—where I've played my entire career—and join The New York Lions in exchange for tracking down the one woman who's consumed me since the day I first saw her fourteen years ago. Job done.

Now we're under the same roof once again, except Marnie Matthews wants nothing to do with me or my heart. So, along with winning the Commissioner's Trophy, I have the added challenge of winning back the only woman I've ever loved before the season ends and convincing her to stay in New York with me.

I might have been stupid enough to lose her once, but I'm definitely not going to do it again. Marnie Matthews is about to become the biggest achievement of my life.

©2023 Lulu Moore (P)2023 Podium Audio

Good baseball romance

Enjoyed the unexpected twist of the story and the flashbacks of young love and decisions of youth

Second Chance set in the STARS!

Second Chance get me EVERY.SINGLE.TIME yall. I was lucky enough to get the ARC for the third book in this series and after liking that one and those characters, I wanted to go back and read the others. This was a wonderful Intro to this new world and the new characters. I LOVED the flashbacks. I loved watching these characters fall in love at 16. OMG My heart was overflowing. Then fast forward 14 years and I loved watching them do it all over again. I loved Jupiter and how we got to unravel all of his layers of grumpiness and this exterior that he put on for everyone. When really he was in love with this woman who he let go (for a dumb reason I might add BUT I got it). I was a little irked with how grumpy he was towards her from the jump- like you have to woo a little bit which he did but after trying a different way. Then he was like putty in her hands, and she didn't even know it. I loved learning about all of his tattoos and how he had decided to have her with him always even if she wasn't. I do love reading when the MMC falls hard and fast and FIRST. I also loved our girl Marnie. Man she was strong. She was brilliant, had worked her way up in a men's world. I loved her reaction to finding out why she had been hired for this baseball team when she knows NOTHING about baseball BUT then also watching her succeed. The thing I love most about second chance is watching them fight their feelings (really only her in this case) until they finally combust.

Marnie is moving across the country to work for a team that the man that she loathes plays for. Also she knows nothing about baseball and yet she found herself unable to say no to this opportunity. Again not even after she realized she would be interacting with Jupiter Reeves, the man who broke her heart 14 years ago, on a daily basis. Oh and did she mention he ghosted her. No contact in all that time. So color her shocked when she finds out that he wouldn't move to this team unless she came too. Or that he spent a literal fortune on her dream telescope. She can't make sense of this grump borderline mean man to who she fell for all those years ago. She also can't make sense of how her body still reacts to him. When she finally learns why he ghosted her and how he has felt about her all this time, she is even more baffled. She could have made that decision with him. They could have had all this time together. But then she realizes that she doesn't want to waste any more time. She wants to get that time together that they didn't have back. But will he believe her now that she has held him at arm's length only giving him her body and not her heart?

Jupiter has a persona. He has a reputation of being the bad boy of baseball. No one knows the kid who fell in love at 16 and left his heart back home. Or how he has had to harden it over time to be able to deal with the never ending ache. So when he is asked to move to New York to help a struggling team, his one condition is he will come if they can find Marnie and get her to work there too. Everything will fall into place when they see each other again he tells himself. But that isn't how it goes. She doesn't want anything to do with him. Clearly his current tactics aren't working. So he tries to relate to her how he used to....space. He tries to give her space while also making it clear what he wants. He woos her in his own way. What he doesn't expect is for her to give in but only with her body. He takes what he can get thinking he will get the rest. But the longer they are doing this and the longer she isn't his, he doesn't know whether he can be half in anymore.

Definitely recommend this series if you haven't started it yet. I really liked Lulu's writing and how she wove this story together. I am excited to read the rest and see everyone fall and who they fall for.

A little slow but good

It’s a little slow but if you are looking for a nice second chance on love it’s an easy listen.

So good!

I mostly came here to say how fantastic the male narrator was. Wow!! So entertaining. Such a spot on performance of the character.

Jupiter Reeves is my fave

This is now my second listen of this book. I love LuLu Moores universe and the narrators we’re perfect picks!