Slick's review posted on Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews 
 Review copy provided for an honest review 
 4.5 STARS 
 Being a huge baseball fan, this book piqued my interest as soon as I saw the cover (although our atruegemawardhero has some hair on his chest unlike the cover model, it's still a nice cover). Having never read this author before, the synopsis sold me on the book and I'm so glad it did. The Winning Season is a great sports related romance that is as sexy as it is endearing and my only complaint, I wanted an epilogue! 
 Matt Scanlon finds himself traded to the one team he never wanted to play for but after his behavior of the last year, he's lucky to be playing at all and he knows it. He wants to get his career back on track and move on but the team's publicist is not his favorite person and she's dogging him to do interviews something he's dead set against. 
 Kelly Maxwell loves her job with the San Francisco Blaze and for the most part she adores her job unfortunately the team's new catcher is making it hard. It doesn't help that she personally can't stand the guy and fears his reputation will ruin her team. 
 It's hard not to feel the animosity between these two and the fact that they have a little history makes matters worse. I liked that these two had to overcome their bad feelings towards one another and that they had to work hard on the road to a relationship. Neither one trusts easily so when they start sharing some pretty heavy stuff from their lives, it was evident they were breaking down walls and discovering the joy of letting someone else in. 
 While their extremely sexy romance was front and foremost in this book, there was also a race for the pennant, a seriously ill child they both befriended, and families to deal with. However, all of that added to the incredibly well written plot and made for a balanced story. 
 Yes, I'm a baseball fan; however I think The Winning Season would appeal to anyone who enjoys a complex plot, believable yet flawed characters, and a race to the finish in both baseball and love.