Please Don't Go (The Midnight Strike #1)
E. Salvador
He felt like he was drowning.
She was about to drown.
Josefine Resendiz, is struggling to figure out her life. Between her complicated relationship with grief and not having a single clue how to feel what she can't understand, she's sinking and isn't sure how to float back up to the surface.
Daniel Garcia, shortstop, a budding ray of sunshine, and potential first round pick for the MLB Draft, has life figured out. At least, that's what everyone assumes. On the surface, he's the embodiment of happiness and life. But beneath it all, guilt and grief have been consuming him since his brother passed away. Unsure how to deal with his feelings, he bottles them up and masks the pain of haunting reminders behind a mask of smiles.
That's until he stumbles upon Josefine on Christmas Day. That wasn't supposed to happen. He wasn't supposed to be there but neither was she, at least not for long. The night evolves into something neither one of them expected and when morning comes, she's nowhere to be found.
He can't stop thinking about her. She wants to forget him. But fate seems to have plans for them.
Once the semester begins they find out they have a class together, and avoiding Daniel becomes hard when they're paired to be hiking buddies. Much to Josefine's chagrin, she likes him more than she cares to admit. And Daniel is struggling to keep everything he's bottled up around her.
Hesitantly and unknowingly, they're opening up old wounds they wanted to keep closed. Feeling grounded around each other. And unintentionally falling in love.
Tagged as:
- contemporary 8
- baseball 6
- college 6
- sports 6
- grumpy & sunshine 6
- found family 6
- m-f romance 6
- tortured heroine 6
- athlete hero 5
- forced proximity 5
- friends to lovers 5
- sweet/gentle hero 5
- latinx mc 4
- rich heroine 4
- teacher/coach heroine 4
- tortured hero 4
- new adult 3
- sassy heroine 3
- possessive hero 3
- athlete heroine 3
- grumpy/ice queen 2
- independent heroine 2
- tall heroine 2
- sunny/happy hero 2
- spanking 2
- fetish 2
- slow burn 1
- masc-dom 1
- bdsm 1
- caretaking 1
- hurt/comfort 1
- insta-love 1
- praise kink 1
- early 20s fmc 1
- early 20s mmc 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- mental illness 5
- suicide / ideation 5
- mental trauma 4
- death / grief 4
- child death 3
- geography
- california 3
- northern africa 1
- north america 1
- Format
- audiobook
- dual pov 5
- first person pov 3
- interconnected standalone 1
- standalone 1
