Jack O'Malley can read a hitter's swing from sixty feet away.He just can't see what's standing right in front of him.Nine losses in fourteen games. A star prospect coming apart at the plate. An owner threatening to pull the plug on the whole season.Jack is a gruff minor-league baseball coach with a scar on his jaw and a clipboard for a heart — and the only thing he loves more than the game is a daughter he keeps forgetting to show up for.Then the owner hires her.Maya Chen, Ph.D. Sports psychologist. Two World Series rings. Five-foot-nothing of calm, steady nerve who walks into his clubhouse and refuses to leave.He tells her she can watch from the stands and keep her mouth shut.She flips over her business card. On the back, in blue ink: Your daughter has a great swing.He hasn't watched Ellie's swing in a month."I'm not here to fix Danny," Maya tells him, like she's reading a weather report. "I'm here to show you that you're the one who's broken."Jack wants to throw her out of his stadium.Instead he keeps the card. He keeps showing up to batting practice. He keeps noticing the way she sees straight through him to the things he's spent years refusing to feel.She's off-limits — hired by the man who signs his checks, the one person who can cost him everything if this goes wrong.Falling for her breaks every unwritten rule in the book.But Maya is the first person in years to call his bluff, to listen when he can't speak, to make him want to be the father and the man he keeps failing to be.When a single photograph threatens to split his career, his family, and his second chance wide open, Jack has to decide what he's really been blind to all along.Because some pitches you have to take. And some you swing for, knowing it costs everything.The Coach's Blind Spot is a slow-burn sports romance about a guarded single dad, a forbidden workplace attraction, a hard-won second chance, emotional walls, and learning to be seen by the one person who refuses to look away.Perfect for readers who love sports romance, grumpy-sunshine pairings, single-dad heroes, forbidden workplace love, and emotional slow burns. A standalone romance with a hard-earned happy ending.