Book Review | Stealing Bases – Tarrah Anders (Tennessee Terrors Series, Book Six)

Stealing Bases
By: Tarrah Anders

Series: Tennessee Terrors
Book # in Series: 6 of 10
Genre: Sports Romance (Baseball)
Publisher: Tarrah Anders
Publication Date: July 1st, 2025
My Rating: ✮✮✮✮
My Reading Format: kindleunlimited

Synopsis:

USA Best Selling Author, Tarrah Anders brings you a steamy sports romance. Stealing Bases is a passionate story of love, loyalty, and the power struggle between family, friendship, and following your heart. This story explores what happens when the rules get in the way of love—and what it takes to break free.

To the world, Chase Thorne has it all. As the star third baseman for the Tennessee Terrors, his job is playing the game he loves and being paid very well for it. But behind the fame and away from adoring fans, he’s at the mercy of his agent, Ethan Hale. His childhood best friend is the one who calls the shots both on and off the field for Chase and his number one rule is that his sister, Skylar, is completely off limits.

To everyone she knows, it looks like Skylar Hale lives life on her own terms. She’s strong, capable and helps those less fortunate through her work as a successful Account Manager for a Non-Profit. But beneath her accomplished exterior, her brother’s over-protectiveness makes her feel like she’s living in a cage, one specifically designed to keep other men out of her life.

Chase never paid Skylar much attention growing up, but the moment they meet again as adults, he’s left in awe of the confident and captivating woman she’s become.

When Ethan tries to exert control over both his best friend and his sister to keep them apart, Chase is faced with an impossible choice: risk a lifelong friendship for a chance at the love he never saw coming—or walk away from the one person who might finally make him feel truly at home.

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Stealing Bases by Tarrah Anders is the sixth book in the Tennessee Terrors Series. If you’re new to this series have no fear. These books can all be read as standalones! If you happen to love romance book series where each book is written by a different author, this is that series and these are those books! Now, without further ado, let’s dive into what Stealing Bases by Tarrah Anders is all about.

Chase didn’t have a great childhood to fall back on like most. But with the help of his best friend’s parents, he made something of himself. Now, he’s a major league baseball player with millions in the bank and kindness for helping those exactly like him in his heart. He’ll do everything he can to play it forward. But, when one of those requests is strictly from his best friend, to stay away from his sister. Chase refuses to heed the strong advice. Matters of the heart sometimes overrule friendships. The last thing I loved about Chase was the fact that he took his tragic upbringing and turned it into something positive. This man has a heart of gold, and it showed!

Skylar has lived her life in the shadows. As a kid/teenager she’s watched her brothers best friend, Chase, with a hungry eye. Now that Chase is working on building a charity within her firm, all bets are on the table and she’ll do whatever she can, even defy her brother’s wishes, to wrap Chase around her finger. After all, she’s not a teenager anymore. She’s her own person.

Tarrah Anders is a new to me author, which is one thing I absolutely love about this series. Throughout the last few years, I’ve been introduced to so many new to me authors due to series such as this one. I really enjoyed the flow that came with Tarrah Anders writing style. I also enjoyed how she made her characters relatable, even if one is a major league baseball player. I felt the emotions throughout the novel and there wasn’t a moments where I second guessed what the characters were feeling. I’m not usually a fan of the ‘Secret Relationship’ trope, due to the fact that I have read so many books in this trope category and they all seem to have the same climatic moment. However, I was pleasantly surprised with the way Tarrah Anders switched it up! Due to this novel, I can see myself reading more from this author in the future!

Now let’s dive into the characters, starting with my favorite and let me start by saying, I wouldn’t have been as cool as Skylar was with all of her older brother’s meddling. But, given her backstory, I loved the fact that she let her brother be protective. Until, it got to be too much. Then she set up her boundaries and reinforced them! This woman is fiercely independent with a kind soul. I also loved the fact that she went after what she wanted with no second guessing. I loved the portrayal of a strong woman who’s not afraid to go after what her heart desires most!

And then we have Chase. I loved the sweetheart vibes! This man would move heaven and earth for those he holds near and dear to his heart. I also loved the fact that he happened to fall hard for his best friend’s younger sister. In all honesty, I haven’t swooned this hard in a long time! I loved the fact that Chase was a no-nonsense kind of guy. He knew he wanted to make this thing with Skylar official and he went for it. So no relationship back and forth nonsense!

There was something about Chase and Skylar that fit from the very first glance. These two were destined and there was no denying the chemistry! One issue with their relationship that I had was I wanted to see there relationship develop more outside of the bedroom and outside of work meetings. I wanted to see more dates as a couple and I wanted to hear more conversations that weren’t based on the topic of Skylar’s brother finding out. Which leads to why I dropped a ½ star on my rating.

Another ½ star was dropped due to the random chapter from Skylar’s brother’s point of view. For me, this chapter interfered with the flow of the story. I drew a conclusion already that Mr. Ethan wasn’t at all happy to have his little sister dating his best friend. And having his words of doubt in my head messed up the flow a bit, for me.

Overall, Tarrah Anders is a great author with great story telling skills. Having been my first read from her, I can easily see myself searching for more books by this author. I enjoyed Skylar and Chase’s story from the sweet moment to the sexy as sin, there story was one I couldn’t put down. I just needed a little bit more to push this one up to a five star read.

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