Jaci Burton

Jaci Burton is an American romance novelist known for long-running contemporary series built around work, family, friendship, and professional sport. She is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author whose catalogue includes the Play-by-Play and Hope books. Berkley released All Wound Up in 2015 as the tenth Play-by-Play novel. It pairs baseball pitcher Tucker Cassidy with Aubry Ross, a doctor whose sharp first encounter with him gradually gives way to mutual interest. Their demanding careers and strong family connections shape the relationship as much as the athletic setting. Burton places Tucker within the Cassidy family already familiar to series readers, while Aubry brings her own professional confidence and expectations. All Wound Up can be read as a complete romance, yet its team and family ties reward readers following the wider sequence. The novel illustrates Burton's characteristic balance of competitive public lives with private vulnerability, using baseball culture as a social world rather than mere background.