Title: Full Count (San Diego Barracudas #1)
Author: Violet Fitzgerald (new author!)
Release Date: July 14, 2026
Genre(s): MM Baseball Romance
Page Count: 330 pages
Blurb:
Three balls.
Two strikes.
One chance left.
Will they risk it all for love, or walk away before a viral scandal costs them both the game?Evan Delgado can handle pressure. He’s built a career on control, and a life behind walls high enough to keep the past out, the pain buried, and anyone who might matter at a distance.
Then CJ Hartman gets traded to San Diego.
Seven years ago, CJ was Evan’s best friend, secret love, and the person who broke his heart. Now he’s a World Series champion, the Barracudas’ newest outfielder, and impossible to avoid.
CJ never planned to end up on Evan’s team. He never planned to share a clubhouse, a city, or a season with the only person he ever loved. Only this Evan is colder, sharper and harder to reach. But that won’t stop CJ from trying to fix what he destroyed now that they’ve been forced together again.
Same team. Same clubhouse. Same unfinished history. Their old chemistry simmers beneath every conversation, every accidental touch, and every memory they swore they’d buried, making it impossible to ignore what still burns between them.
CJ never stopped loving Evan. Evan never forgave him for leaving. And as the season unfolds, they’ll have to decide whether some risks are worth taking twice.
Full Count is a slow burn M/M baseball romance, and is the first book in the San Diego Barracudas series. It features second chances, former best friends, secret college exes, found family, mutual pining and two men trying very hard not to admit they never got over each other
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About Violet
Though she lives in Pennsylvania now, Violet Fitzgerald was raised in Boston and is unapologetically loyal to New England sports teams. Bruins. Sox. Pats. Celts. In that order. Undeterred by geography or reason, she remains aggressively Bostonian, which serves as both a personality trait and a warning. With degrees in journalism and sport management, it was inevitable that she’d end up writing stories where ambition, competition, and complicated feelings collide.
By day, Violet makes good trouble with a brilliant group of co-conspirators. By night, she retreats to her writing cave, chasing plot bunnies that keep her awake, and trying to wrangle unruly men into behaving long enough to let her write their story. Her husband doesn’t quite understand why she’s negotiating with fictional characters but he supports her unconditionally anyway.
When she’s not working or writing, Violet can most often be found drinking too much coffee, staying up past her bedtime to finish whatever queer romance she’s reading, or making questionable financial decisions to buy hockey tickets.
