Harper Rae James Live at Tattered Cover Aspen Grove

Join us for a fun night with Harper Rae James to celebrate her new book in the Mango Bay series, Caught Looking, a friends-to-lovers sports romance filled with heartbreak, heat, and healing on Friday, August 14th at 6:00 PM at our Aspen Grove location!

Registration includes the following options:

• A signed Paperback copy of the book … OR

• A $5 Gift Card to Tattered Cover Book Store

We will have a limited supply of additional books for guests to purchase in store. Only a book ticket guarantees you a copy of the book.

This event includes an opportunity to meet the author, participate in an audience Q&A after the book talk, and get your book(s) signed and personalized. Photos with the author are welcome!

If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Sun-soaked days. Electric nights. And a love that might be worth the fall.

Welcome back to Mango Bay where the heat is relentless, the music is loud, and the players are impossible to resist. It’s baseball… but better.

Sloan Barrett knows what it takes to survive in a man’s world. As a former pro football kicker, she’s built her life on grit, talent, and never taking anyone’s crap. But when a career-ending injury sidelines her for good, everything she’s worked for comes crashing down. As if that isn’t enough, she discovers her boyfriend is cheating on her. The only problem? He’s also her boss, and escaping him might cost her everything.

Jax Calder has always been the easygoing one. The smiling, carefree pitcher everyone loves. The guy who dances without hesitation, lifts everyone up, and never lets the darkness show. But when his past baseball experiences haunt him, he realizes pretending is too hard.

According to her, they weren’t supposed to matter to each other.
Not like this.

According to him, this was exactly how it was meant to be.

What starts as an unlikely friendship with late nights, shared secrets, and quiet understanding, turns into something deeper. Something neither of them is ready for. Because while Jax falls fast and hard, Sloan is still picking up the broken pieces of her life, her grief, and her trust.

And love? Love was never part of her plan.

But in Mango Bay, where emotions run high and nothing stays simple, they’re grit is put to the test.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Harper Rae James writes spicy, emotion-forward romance for readers who crave longing, second chances, and love that refuses to stay buried.

Her stories live in the quiet space between almost and always, where feelings simmer, restraint fractures, and intimacy is earned. Expect mutual pining, he-falls-first energy, and heat that hits harder becasue it means something.

If you love slow burns with real payoff, characters who ache before they heal, and stories that linger long after the last page, you're in the right place.