
Meet Me Under the Lights
Penguin Young Readers Group · Paperback · March 3, 2026
My Life with the Walter Boys meets The Notebook in this small-town baseball romance perfect for fans of Kasie West and Carley Fortune.
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- Who it’s for
- Baseball, community theater, and hometown loyalties give this teen romance its summer pulse.
- Themes
- Small-town romance, Baseball and ambition, Family rivalry
- Genres
- Baseball & Softball, Contemporary YA Romance, Romantic Comedy for Teens
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My Life with the Walter Boys meets The Notebook in this small-town baseball romance perfect for fans of Kasie West and Carley Fortune. High school junior Eliza Crowley is known as the Princess of Fairfield, a farm town in North Carolina that loves two things—tradition and baseball. Although Eliza loves “the game,” her life goal is to become a lighting designer on Broadway.
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Shaking off her reputation as the rich girl and focusing on her town's community theater production are what she’s set her sights on this summer, and nothing will stand in her way. That is until Reed Fulton, the grandson of a struggling Fairfield farmer, and ace pitcher of the Fulton Hawks, returns to town. Reed dreams of putting the catastrophe of last season behind him and leading the Hawks to a championship victory against the Crowley Cardinals. When his childhood friend turned stranger, Eliza, strolls back into his life, she makes his heart accelerate quicker than his fastball, and he’s not sure he can stay away from the girl he’s supposed to despise. Small-town summers and baseball draw Reed and Eliza together, even though the Crowleys and the Fultons are determined to run each other out of town. When the families make a deal to settle their thirty-year-long dispute once and for all, Eliza and Reed are stuck in the middle during the most important summer of their lives.
Summer Crosscurrents
Baseball, community theater, and hometown loyalties give this teen romance its summer pulse.
Come here for
- Small-town baseball and a theater-minded heroine
- A childhood friendship tangled in family rivalry
Expect
- Romance shaped by hometown loyalties
- Ambition reaching beyond the ball field
Where it sits
| Contemporary YA Romance | 91% |
|---|---|
| Baseball & Softball | 52% |
| Romantic Comedy for Teens | 29% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Country Life for Teens
- Class & Inequality for Teens
- Baseball & Softball
- Authors
- Cassie Miller
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- March 3, 2026
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Small-town romance · Baseball and ambition · Family rivalry
- Reading lane
- Country Life for Teens