Cole is very focused on his baseball career and it's his last year to have the opportunity to be drafted. He has never really had a committed relationship with any girl, he sees it as a distraction when he needs to be putting all his time and energy on improving his technique. 'Baseball was all I saw. And I was not unique in that perspective. Baseball was all most ballplayers saw. We all shared the same dream - to get to the minor leagues and hopefully get into the bigs one day.' Christina has been in love with Cole for as long as she can remember but the last time she tried to get any sort of commitment out of him he shut her down. She knows she needs to move on and find someone who is proud to publicly be with her, she always felt like she was Cole's dirty little secret and she can't put her heart through that again. She deserves more. 'I needed to stop giving my body to a guy who refused to give me anything more than his. And I definitely needed to stop giving my heart to a guy who didn't deserve it.' - Christina Cole has always been confident in his decision not to seriously date anyone but when he finds his mind drifting to thoughts of Christina more than it usually does, he begins to question his theory. What if keeping her at arm's length is the one thing holding him back from being the best player he can be? If you like emotionally intelligent heroes, college sport romance, you'll want to escape into this novel.