Rachel Baack
Summary: Crawford Cope, the star pitcher of his small Arkansas town’s baseball team, has just been sentenced to 300-hours of community service for beating his dad, an even bigger MLB star and hometown hero, with a baseball bat. Crawford, convinced that his lack of anger management skills are to blame for the whole situation, determines to keep his head down, pay off his debt to society, and learn to keep his emotions under control, if not for his own sake then for the sake of keeping his family, which includes his eight-year-old brother, together. His plan is interrupted, however, when he meets Hannah Flores. Also the recipient of a community service sentence, Hannah is Crawford’s opposite: she is a talkative, edgy, social outcast who loves punk music and, after forming an unlikely connection with Crawford, recognizes that Crawford is carrying the burden of family secrets that he shouldn’t—and possibly can’t—carry alone.
Summary: Crawford Cope, the star pitcher of his small Arkansas town’s baseball team, has just been sentenced to 300-hours of community service for beating his dad, an even bigger MLB star and hometown hero, with a baseball bat. Crawford, convinced that his lack of anger management skills are to blame for the whole situation, determines to keep his head down, pay off his debt to society, and learn to keep his emotions under control, if not for his own sake then for the sake of keeping his family, which includes his eight-year-old brother, together. His plan is interrupted, however, when he meets Hannah Flores. Also the recipient of a community service sentence, Hannah is Crawford’s opposite: she is a talkative, edgy, social outcast who loves punk music and, after forming an unlikely connection with Crawford, recognizes that Crawford is carrying the burden of family secrets that he shouldn’t—and possibly can’t—carry alone.