Hayes by Delaney Foster

The starting over checklist:
Small town- check
New job- check
A bottle of moscato with a turtle named Bob Marley- check
Flirty pro baseball player with an ass that just. won’t. quit.- double check

Jess-
The last thing I expected to see when I came to the tiny seaside town of Sycamore Park was a reminder of all the things I’d been running from. As the “new, young” physical therapist, it was important for me to leave the past where it belonged—in the past.
Then he showed up.
With the ghost from my past hot on his heels.

Julian-
I was the youngest starting pitcher for the New York Yankees, with the lowest ERA in the league, and my throwing arm was busted up like a can of biscuits.
Thanks to my reputation for finding trouble, my manager sent me to a physical therapist in Small Town, USA for rehab. But I didn’t find trouble this time.
She found me.
I was her dirty little secret. And if there was one thing everyone knew about small towns, it was that they sucked at keeping secrets.

*Hayes is a short story formally published in the LuvBooks Bad Boys of Summer anthology. All books in the Sweet Southern Heat series can be read as standalones.**