Winning the Player by Heather Young-Nichols

When a grumpy baseball player shows up in town with a perpetual bad mood, I should know better than to get involved.

Cobb Briggs needs a ray of sunshine in his life. Unfortunately, I’m not the one and this isn’t the day. Grabbing coffee after I was arrested—again—and finding him at the coffee shop, means he only gets a thunderstorm.
Talking to him is too easy—and my storm clouds begin to clear. For reasons of his own, we’re only going to be friends. He doesn’t even want to be in this town. Then the rumors start to swirl about why he was traded from his last team.
They’re just rumors, right?
They might not be only rumors and my trouble never seems to end. Yet, I still want to win the player over.

Winning the Player is book three in the Rules of the Game series and features a protective baseball player and a woman who has more trouble than she can handle, a fated meeting, lots of steam, and it can never be you vibes.