Catch Got Your Tongue

Summary

Never Been Kissed meets Ted Lasso (but make it baseball) in this neighbor-to-lovers, brother’s teammate romcom set in the Pacific Northwest.

After two decades of living in her brother’s shadow, Bella Pink is determined to start fresh and build something that finally feels like hers. Since moving to Rose City—home of Major League Baseball’s newest addition, the Roasters—she’s found a solid circle of friends who love every bit of her curvy, neurospicy self, launched her honey business, Comb Sweet Comb, and even started dating again. Unfortunately, her recent run of bad dates looks less like romantic potential and more like a highlight reel of red flags . . . or a future Dateline episode.

Enter Bennett King, her brother’s teammate and her new next-door neighbor. Bennett sees straight through Bella’s carefully curated “I’m fine” routine and makes her want things she definitely didn’t schedule into her color-coordinated calendar.

Bennett is used to being “the exception.” As the only deaf catcher in major league baseball, he’s staked his career—and mental health—on preparation, routine, and always staying in control. Except when it comes to Bella. Whether he’s ready or not to admit it, Bennett’s been gone for his teammate’s little sister since the night she outbid half the city for him at a charity bachelor auction. She’s too young, too inexperienced, and too off-limits . . . but the closer she gets, the harder it becomes to remember why staying away from her was ever an option in the first place.

Catch Got Your Tongue is the fifth book in the Rose City Roasters baseball series. This neighbors-to-lovers, brother’s teammate romance between a plus-size, neurospicy beekeeper and the cinnadom, deaf catcher next door features a virgin heroine who’s eager to experiment, grown men tasting wedding cakes, anxiety and autistic representation, an almost entirely LGBTQIA+ supporting cast of characters, and NSFW phone calls.

Read by Mary Helen Gallucci and J.J. Jones