Sweet Spot

March 5, 2012
Angell’s fifth Richmond Rogues baseball romance (after Sliding Home) is another lighthearted contemporary in which a rakehell athlete is tamed by a quirky, passionate woman. Star second baseman James “Law” Lawless and ambitious financial adviser Cat May have a memorable sexual encounter while in costumes and masks at a night club. He spends much of the book trying to identify “Wonder Woman” while she tries to pretend the incident never happened. Meanwhile, as affluent investor, Law meets Cat in her professional role and is wowed by her business acumen. Disappointingly, there is little of the baseball trivia that gave the earlier books their charm, but fans of the Richmond Rogues will enjoy cameo appearances from the whole team and their sweethearts. Agent: Roberta Brown, Brown Literary Agency.

May 15, 2012
The worlds of professional baseball and comic books collide in the fifth installment in Angell's Richmond Rogues series. At a popular nightclub in which everyone dresses in costume, comic-book collector and second baseman James Law Lawless, aka Captain America, tangles with a mysterious Wonder Woman, his childhood love, who pulls a Cinderella on him, leaving her golden lasso behind. While he aches to see her again, Law, as heir to an international hotel chain, is caught up in real-estate transactions with his former teammate Zen Driscoll's firm. Zen has just hired financial whiz kid Catherine May, who realizes when she meets Law that she can't let on that they'd had a dance-floor tryst while she was Wonder Woman. As they work together, Law is torn between searching for the elusive Wonder Woman and letting her go for Catherine. Meanwhile, shortstop Brody Jones, another teammate, must placate his hometown sweetheart. Baseball fans and comics lovers will relish the details in Angell's clever and snappy romance.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2012, American Library Association.)