The Sweetest Game is the third and final installment in Jack & Cassie's story. This emotional journey takes you into the heart of a baseball career coming to an end.

"It’s one hell of a sledgehammer to the chest when your baseball career comes to an end." The realization hits hard that baseball never loved you back. All those sleepless nights, the hours spent at the gym trying to stay fit, the conditioning, the training, the mental preparation, the holidays missed, the birthdays passed, the memories not made with family... all for what?

Baseball is a business, a sport, a game. And as much as Jack's entire life has been wrapped up in it, it's time to let it go. Join Jack as he navigates the bittersweet journey of letting go of his past and embracing a future filled with love and new beginnings.

In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her abusive husband and now works as a common laborer.

Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which have opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women have pushed against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance, and submission.

They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies. Yet they are still very much bound to each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.