There are sports romances that use the game as window dressing, a convenient excuse to put attractive people in tight pants. And then there are stories where the sport is woven into the marrow of every conflict, every stolen glance, every high-stakes decision a character makes. In Her Own League by Liz Tomforde is firmly, thrillingly, the latter. This standalone spin-off from Tomforde’s beloved Windy City series introduces us to Reese Remington, the first female team owner in Major League Baseball history, and Emmett “Monty” Montgomery, the tattooed, gum-chewing field manager whose contract she holds in the palm of her perfectly manicured hand. What follows is a slow-burning, dual-POV romance that earns its heat through genuine emotional tension rather than cheap shortcuts. The Lineup: Characters Who Earn Their Spot Reese is the kind of heroine who walks into a boardroom full of men who want her to fail and refuses to blink first. She carries a Stanford MBA, a legacy she inherited from her grandfather, and the invisible weight of every woman who has ever …