Baseball brings them togetherâbut will his secret keep them apart? Find out in this heartbreakingly beautiful novel from Jennifer E. Smith, author of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight.
The last place Ryan Walsh should be this afternoon is on a train heading to Wrigley Field. She should be in class, enduring yet another miserable day of her first year of high school. But for once, Ryan isnât thinking about what she should be doing. Sheâs not worried about her lack of friends, or her suffering math grade, or how itâs been five whole years since the last time she was really and truly happy. Because sheâs finally returning to the place that her father loved, where the two of them spent so many afternoons cheering on their team. And on thisâthe fifth anniversary of his deathâit feels like thereâs nowhere else in the world she should be.
Ryan is once again filled with hope as she makes her way to the game. Good luck is often hard to come by at a place like Wrigley Field, but itâs on this day that she meets Nick, the new kid from her school, who seems to love the Cubs nearly as much as she does. But Nick carries with him a secret that makes Ryan wonder if anyone can ever really escape their past, or believe in the promise of those reassuring words: âWait till next year.â Is it too much for Ryan to hope that this year, this season, might be her comeback season?
