Love and Pickleball: A Small Town Sports Romance

By Kira Brady

There's No Love in Pickleball...

Forty and finally divorced, Celeste Knowles is free to be true to herself...If only she knew who that was. When she's forced to attend her ex's lavish wedding, Celeste decides it's the perfect time to move on-in the banquet hall closet, no less.

But after panicking and running out on her mustachioed stranger, Celeste realizes she needs to start smaller. Maybe pick up an old hobby. Work up to the wild sex with strangers.

Hayden Holstrom, her new pickleball coach, is infuriatingly charming, distractingly handsome-and young-and his easy smile feels suspiciously familiar.

But Hayden has secrets of his own. He's falling hard for the shy, crossword-loving divorcee, and he's desperate for a chance to prove their connection is more than a fleeting memory. Can he convince Celeste to risk her heart again, especially when the odds are against them?

The ball is in her court...

LOVE AND PICKLEBALL: A cinnamon roll pickleball coach falls for a sexy crossword-obsessed older woman in the first book in the Salmon Bay series, a steamy reverse age-gap sports romance featuring found family, bad pickle-puns, and solvable crossword puzzles

Perfect for fans of:

Small Town RomancePickleballSports romanceHe falls firstRomantic ComedyCrossword PuzzlesFound FamilyHot Nerdy HeroesIndependent Heroinesreverse age-gap

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FY3Z11KC
• ISBN13: 9798993254517
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Lupines and Lore Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"