As far as Clay Carpenter is concerned, his abusive relationship with food is the best thing he’s got going. When a good friend starts kicking his ass into gear, Clay is forced to reexamine everything he learned about food and love—and that’s right when he meets troubled graduate student, Dane Hayes.
Dane Hayes doesn’t do the whole monogamy thing, but the minute he meets Clay Carpenter, he’s doing the friend thing in spades. The snarky, scruffy bastard not only gets Dane’s wacky sense of humor, he also accepts the things Dane can’t control—like the bipolar disorder Dane has been trying to manage for the past six years.
Dane is hoping for more than friendship, and Clay is looking at him with longing that isn’t platonic. They’re both positive they’re bad at relationships, but with the help of forbidden desserts and new medication regimens, they prove outstanding at being with each other. But can they turn their friendship into the love neither of them has dared to hope for?
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Blurb:
a Winter Ball novel
Through a miserable adolescence and a lonely adulthood, Skipper Keith has dreamed of nothing but family. The closest he gets is the rec league soccer team he coaches after work—and his star player and best friend, Richie Scoggins.
One brisk night in late October, a postpractice convo in Richie’s car turns into a sexual encounter neither of them expected—nor want to forget. Soon Skip and Richie are living for the weekends and their winter league soccer games—and the games they enjoy off the field. Through broken noses, holiday decorating, and the killer flu, they learn more about each other than they ever dreamed possible. Every new discovery takes them further beyond the boundaries of the soccer field and into the infinite possibilities of the best relationship of Skipper’s life.
Skipper can’t dream of a better family than Richie—but Richie’s got real family entanglements he can’t shake off. Skipper needs to convince Richie to stay with him beyond winter ball so the relationship they started on the field might become their happy future in real life!
Blurb:
a Winter Ball novel
Mason Hayes’s love life has a long history of losers who don’t see that Mason’s heart is as deep and tender as his mouth is awkward. He wants kindness, he wants love—and he wants someone who thinks sex is as fantastic as he does. When Terry Jefferson first asks him out, Mason thinks it’s a fluke: Mason is too old, too boring, and too blurty to interest someone as young and hot as his friend’s soccer teammate.
The truth is much more painful: Mason and Terry are perfectly compatible, and they totally get each other. But Terry is still living with his toxic, suffocating parent and Mason doesn’t want to be a sugar daddy. Watching Terry struggle to find himself is a long lesson in patience, but Mason needs to trust that the end result will be worth it, because finally, he’s found a man worth sharing his heart with.
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This is long awaited. I loved Winter Ball and Summer Lessons and have been hoping the series would continue.
This is the last one–I couldn’t leave without Clay and Dane’s story!
I enjoy your stories so much. Thanks
You are always welcome 🙂
congrats Amy..love your stories
Thank you so much!
Congratulations on your new covers and upcoming release!
Thank you 🙂 I hope you like Fall Through Spring!
Can’t wait for the new book, the covers are all lovely but I do kinda miss the old ones!
I loved the concept, but I think they were too understated–people just didn’t see them.
I like the cover redesign.
Thank you! Me too!
Great covers!
Love the new covers! I’m looking forward to the new story!
Good work! I like it.
The covers look fantastic!
Congratulations!! I love your books and look forward to reading more of them.
Love these book covers. I haven’t read Winter Ball (though I have it in old cover) will have to start dive into the series soon!!
Winter Ball was so good! I love these new covers. they are simply amazing
Catching up with this series (and fantastic covers too!!) I have almost everything Amy has written so I’m a confirmed fan 🙂
I’m looking forward to reading them.
Love the covers! Can’t wait to read!