Sliding Home

by Kate Angell

Book Overview

The ultimate bad boy baseball player finds a stranger in his shower and decides that no matter how sexy the interloper is, she won?t find a place in his life?little does he know that the baseball... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0505528088
• ISBN13: 9780505528087
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Love Spell
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Love her books!

I didn't want this book to end. I love all of these Rogue books. I can't wait for the next one to come out. She always writes good characters that you care about. The women are never bitchy and the men are always yummy. The love scenes are just right. There's something about professional athletes that just make these stories so enjoyable to read. There's even a little side romance in this one so it's like you got 2 stories in 1. Both were great!

Wonderful depth of relationship development - down-on-her luck woman inhabits mobile home of basebal

STORY BRIEF: Kason is a major league baseball player for the Richmond Rogues. He is a loner, anti-social, rarely speaks and lives with his dog in a mobile home in a secluded wooded area. When he returns from six weeks of spring training, he finds Dayne living in his home. She thought his trailer had been abandoned and is claiming squatter's rights. She had been dumped by her fiancé who took their joint money and changed the locks on their home. She also lost her job doing promotion for his radio talk show. She is now looking for a job while working part-time at Frank's Food Warehouse. Using her employee discount, she stocks the mobile home with family size quantities of mac and cheese, hamburger, kool-aid, pudding, etc. She doesn't know who Kason is, and he lets her assume he is low on money and between jobs. She offers him some of her food and stays in the guest bed. His dog loves her. Kason wants her gone as soon as possible. REVIEWER'S OPINION: A quote on the book's cover says "Kate Angell is to baseball as Susan Elizabeth Phillips is to football." I would not say exactly the same, but they are similar. There is wonderful depth of relationship development. The events, conversations, main story, and secondary story are all good, some parts excellent. I didn't want to stop reading. This is my first Angell book. I did not find as much humor in this book as I've found in some of Phillips' books, but it was thoroughly enjoyable. There were a few chuckles and some heart softening moments. There was one funny line that I kept thinking about and chuckling over after reading the book. Page 261, Coach Dyson asks a question, and Psycho gives a funny answer. In general, neat characters, good story, entertaining. DATA: Story length: 277 pages. Swearing language: moderate. Sexual language: moderate. Number of sex scenes: 3. Total number of sex scene pages: 7. Setting: current day Richmond, Virginia and Louisville, Kentucky. Copyright: 2009. Genre: contemporary sports romance. OTHER BOOKS: To date, I've read the following Kate Angell books. Richmond Rogues baseball series: 4 stars. Squeeze Play (Book 1) Copyrt 2006. Review Date 10-1-09. 4 stars. Curveball (Book 2) Copyrt 2007. Review Date 10-1-09. 3 stars. Strike Zone (Book 3) Copyrt 2008. Review Date 10-1-09. 5 stars. Sliding Home (Book 4) Copyrt 2009. Review Date 9-18-09. 3 stars. Ho, Humbug, Ho (in anthology Santa, Honey) Copyrt 2009. Review Date 10-4-09. Other: 1 star. Calder's Rose Copyrt 2003. Review Date 12-1-09.

I wish Kate Angell would write faster!

The Richmond Rogues is one of my favorite contempory romance series. I just wish that Angell would write them faster! Waiting a year is torture! Especially since every single one has been a keeper. Sliding Home is no exception. The fourth book after Squeeze Play, Curveball, and Strike Zone. It features the moody/broody mobile-trail-home living-out-in-the-woods antisocial hero Kason Rhodes. He likes his peace, quite and solitary lifestyles until its disrupted by an unwelcome visitor. Looks like someone's been living in his trailer while he's been away at spring training. But Dayne, a tough talking tomboy, is no squatter. She found the abandoned trailer in the middle of the woods fair and square. And just to prove what a nice person she can be, she'll share some of her bulk foods and her comfort cooking with the good looking Kason. Its obvious that he's down on his luck, no money and no job. And Dayne knows exactly how that feels like. But Kason doesn't need anyone's charity. The Multimillion baseball player just likes living alone with his dog. He'll tolerate the sassy back talker until she can hitch up her stuff and leave. But soon he doesn't want her leaving. Dayne's the only person who's ever meant anything to the badass baseball player. What happens when she finds out she's been duped? A keeper. Focuses more on a single romance than the previous books in the series, which is better IMHO. Kind hearted Dayne is an excellent foil to Kason's broody closed off nature. I enjoyed their romance though the secondary romance with Rhaden and Revelle (odd names?) is a bit lacking. All in all a great book. Light, fun and amusing romance. Good for a quick summer read. Recommended for light romance fans.

Worth waiting for

Loved the book, picked it up the first day is was available and read it in two days. I loved Kason & Dayne's story - saw a lot of Psycho in the book, was hoping to get caught up with Risk and Jacy's but there was very little mentioned about them. Looking forward to Sweet Spot, hate to have to wait another year - does anyone know which Rogue the story is going to be about? If you love the sports themed books by other authors you will love this one. It's spicy, but not over the top.

If the Rogues were a real team, I would be their #1 fan!

Kason Rhodes comes home from spring training to find Dayne Sheridan in his shower. Assuming the trailer was abandoned, and falling on hard times, she had taken residence in the trailer, to work on saving money and healing her broken heart (her fiance, a radio DJ, broke up with her on the air). Kason may play for the Rogues, but he is a Loner with a capitol L and wants her out. She has no where to go, and fights to stay. I really enjoyed this book. The secondary story was just as interesting as Kason and Dayne's story, and I found myself again rooting for the Rogues, both on the field and off. For those of you who read and enjoyed Curveball, you see a lot of Psycho McMillan, who is my favorite of the "Bat Pack." There were more than a few laugh out loud moments (making love on poison ivy is never a good idea). I love sports romances, and have ready many many many! Kate Angell's Richmond Rogues are one of my favorites...right up there with Susan Elizabeth Phillips Chicago Stars and Dierdre Martin's New York Blades. I hope she continues to write more. They are now a definite auto buy for me. This is a quick, fun story that will be great to read on that blessed first day of school when peace comes back to your house after a long summer of lots of noise. :) Enjoy.