Years ago, pro-baseball player Zeke Olsen left Ava Harrison broken hearted with no plans to look back-at least that's what she thought. When Ava takes her dream job as a physical therapist for the Coastal Coconuts-a fun and quirky showball baseball team-Zeke is forced back into her life looking better than ever and very much taken.
Zeke tried to bury his heartbreak with Ava years ago in a relationship of convenience. It was everything he needed to forget about the only woman he's ever loved. Predictable, loveless, detached, safe. Life was fine until Ava blew back into his life like a hurricane and the resistance he spent years building began to crack.
As old sparks fly and boundaries blur, Zeke struggles to find a way out of the toxic relationship keeping him from his one and only.

Can one summer be enough to save what they used to have?

CRUEL SUMMER is a standalone novel and the second book in the COASTAL COCONUTS series based off the Savannah Bananas baseball team. Cruel Summer is a swoony, second-chance romance with a curvy female main character, alpha male energy and all the found family vibes! Perfect for fans of the Savannah Bananas, Sports romances, messy exes and unexpected happy endings!

Other novels by Angela Parkhurst include: HYPOTHETICALLY YOURS (baseball romace!), BOMBSHELL (Celebrity/Sports romance, STARFISH (workplace romance), AFTER GLOW (hockey romance), TO GET TO YOU (theatre/best friends brother romance), A SUMMER WITH YOU (fake dating/second chance romance) and the YA fairytale series, THE FORGOTTEN FAIRYTALES.