Emerson Davies has everything under control.Junior year of college should be perfect for a guy like him: baseball star, dialed-in athlete,ironclad routine. The only thing missing? Any kind of love life—and that’s exactly how he’s kept it.When his best friend gives him an ultimatum, Emerson has one shot to prove he’s ready to take a risk: ask out Valeria Rivera Betancourt—the driven, quietly confident girl in his project group—or she’ll step in and do it for him.Valeria has her own plans. Her own goals. A future she’s working toward with the same focus Emerson brings to baseball. She knows what she wants, and she knows how to get it.Study sessions turn into gym sessions.Gym sessions turn into friendship.And before either of them realizes it, the lines between classmates, friends, and something more begin to blur.But for Emerson, wanting something is the easy part.Keeping it is where everything could fall apart.Because if he can’t break free from the expectations that have shaped him… he might lose the only person who’s ever been worth making space for.At Your Pace is a male-POV only baseball romance, the first in the Hudson Valley State series.