Free MM Romance Book: Bench Me, Praise Me by Chase Power — Praise Kink, an Age Gap, and Two Words That Ruin a Rookie
Want a free MM sports romance with a praise kink, an eleven-year age gap, and a grumpy veteran catcher who says two words that take a rookie apart? Bench Me, Praise Me by Chase Power is yours — completely free, no strings.
What’s the Book About?
Tyler West is twenty-four, freshly called up, and coming apart at the seams. He was supposed to be the answer. Instead he’s pressing at the plate, chasing everything outside the zone, and watching his name slide down the lineup card until it isn’t on it at all. Getting benched is humiliating. What comes after is worse, and better.
Logan Price is thirty-five, the clubhouse’s immovable object, and the man who told the manager to sit the kid down. He’s spent a decade catching pitchers who fall apart, and he knows exactly what a young player looks like three weeks before he breaks for good. So he takes Ty into the cage at six in the morning and starts rebuilding him one swing at a time.
The correction works. What neither of them plans for is the way Ty’s whole body reacts when Logan finally says good boy — and the way Logan, who has never in his life lost his grip on anything, can’t stop saying it.
Why Readers Are Losing Their Minds Over This One
This is a praise-kink book that actually commits. Not a stray “good boy” dropped into chapter twelve as seasoning — the praise is the entire mechanism of the relationship. Logan’s approval is scarce by temperament, which makes every earned word land like a hand on the back of the neck. Ty has spent his whole career being told he’s a prospect. Nobody has ever told him he did something right and meant it.
It’s also short and brutal in the best way. At roughly 41,000 words there’s no fat on it — it’s a single sustained escalation from the first six a.m. cage session to a secret that two men on the same roster cannot possibly keep. Grumpy veteran and golden-retriever rookie, with the sunshine half slowly learning he’s allowed to want things.
And the secret-relationship pressure is real: same clubhouse, same bus, same hotel floor, thirty teammates and a coaching staff who notice everything.
The Tropes — If You’re a Trope Shopper, This Is Your Cart
✅ Praise kink — structural, not decorative. The reward system is the relationship
✅ Age gap (24/35) — veteran catcher and the rookie he was told to fix
✅ Grumpy/sunshine — except the grumpy one cracks for exactly one person
✅ Teammates to lovers — same roster, same clubhouse, nowhere to hide
✅ Mentor/protégé — with a power dynamic that shifts as the rookie stops needing saving
✅ Secret relationship — road trips, hotel floors, and a locker room full of witnesses
✅ Forced proximity — a baseball season is six months of being in the same room
✅ HEA — guaranteed, standalone, no cliffhanger
The Heat Level — Let’s Be Honest About It
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ — Inferno.
Explicit, repeatedly, and with the praise running through every scene as dialogue rather than window dressing. Cage after hours. A hotel room on a road trip. The kind of book where the dirty talk is half instruction and half devotion, and where the hottest moment might be a fully clothed one with a hand on the back of Ty’s neck. Short book, extremely high output.
Who Should Read This
You’ll love Bench Me, Praise Me if you’re looking for:
→ A free MM sports romance you can finish in one sitting and immediately reread
→ Praise kink romance where the kink is the plot
→ Age gap MM with a mentor dynamic that evolves instead of staying static
→ Baseball that’s written by someone who knows what a swing plane is
→ A rookie with a real wound arc about being labeled potential and never enough
→ A veteran who speaks about eleven words a chapter and means all of them
→ Secret relationship tension with genuine professional stakes
How to Get Your Free Copy
We’re giving away Bench Me, Praise Me for a limited time via BookFunnel. Grab your copy in epub, mobi, or PDF — delivered straight to your device, no hassle.
More from Chase Power
If Bench Me, Praise Me hits, Chase Power writes MM sports romance across the rink, the pitch, the gym, and the bullpen — closeted captains, rival teammates, and coaches who should know better. Browse them all on the Chase Power author page, or visit the full book page for Bench Me, Praise Me to read Chapter One free.
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Pining in Plain Sight
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Full Contact
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Room Service, Sir?
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The Fireman’s Pole Position
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Lease, Lies & Love Handles
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Hard Launch, Soft Landing
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Pit Stop & Pillow Talk
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Hat Trick & Hickeys
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Hostile Merger
Two rival fixers. One tiny apartment. The only thing harder than closing the deal is pretending they don't want each other.
Straight on Paper
A quiet librarian. The tattooed single dad next door who swears he's straight. And twelve feet of fence between them.
Penalty Box Daddy
Bridgeport Titans
His mentor. His protector. His daddy. The one man who could end his career — or become his whole world.
Overtime Privileges
He protects everyone. He never lets anyone protect him.
Call the Pitch, Call Me Yours
The veteran catcher calls every pitch. The rookie wants him to call something else.
Deep End, No Labels
He held his breath for everyone. Then a filmmaker taught him to exhale.
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