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When the boss falls for the coach
Reese Remington has spent years working her way up through the ranks of Major League Baseball, learning every side of the business from the inside out. When she inherits the Chicago Warriors from her grandfather and becomes the first female team owner in MLB history, she expects resistance. What she does not expect is Emmett "Monty" Montgomery, the Warriors' long-serving field manager, who questions nearly every decision she makes from day one.
Monty has built his identity around this team. He has watched players grow, protected his staff like family, and put the Warriors above everything else in his life. When the new owner starts cutting costs without explanation, he takes it personally. Their power struggle plays out in conference rooms, on the road, and in the margins of every interaction where they pretend not to notice each other.
What neither of them planned for is what happens when the walls come down. Reese is navigating her first season under a level of public scrutiny no other owner in the league has faced, and Monty is the one person who keeps showing up. Getting involved would cost them both everything they have worked for. Walking away is starting to feel just as impossible.
I was already invested in Monty from his appearances in Caught Up and Play Along. He had always been the steady one in the background, the grounded older figure the younger players all looked up to. Getting a full story built around him felt like something the series had been quietly earning for a while.
Reese Remington is one of the better-written heroines Tomforde has given us. She is competent, she is under real pressure, and the book does not let you forget what it costs her to keep showing up as the only woman in every room she walks into. The tension between her and Monty does not come from manufactured misunderstandings. It comes from two people with legitimate, clashing priorities, which makes it far easier to invest in.
The enemies-to-lovers arc here earns its slow burn. The chemistry builds through road trips, sideline confrontations, and a handful of quiet moments where neither of them quite says what they mean. Tomforde is good at writing attraction that feels earned rather than announced, and that holds throughout. There is one scene midway through the audiobook that had me genuinely pausing just to sit with it for a moment.
The age-gap dynamic (Monty is in his forties, Reese in her mid-thirties) adds a layer that the story handles well. It is not played for shock value. The weight of what they could lose, professionally and personally, stays present all the way to the end.
Samantha Brentmoor and Jason Clarke narrate in duet, and the split works cleanly. Brentmoor gives Reese a measured, controlled quality that breaks at exactly the right moments, while Clarke brings a warmth to Monty that keeps him from ever reading as cold or distant. At 13 hours and 28 minutes, the pacing never drags.
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In Her Own League by Liz Tomforde drops you into the first season of Reese Remington's tenure as the only female owner in Major League Baseball. She inherited the Chicago Warriors from her grandfather and walked straight into a team bleeding money, a resistant coaching staff, and a media that has already decided what to think of her. Monty, the team's longtime field manager, is not her ally. Not at first.
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