Ralph Bland's fourth novel, ACE, follows the flights, fancies, and comic pratfalls of John (Ace) Hardaway as he navigates eight months of life in 2005 Nashville, Tennessee. Ace, former baseball pitching phenomenon and athlete extraordinaire, is 55 years old and attempting to weather the midlife crisis threatening to envelop him: sexual temptations, ghostly visitations, Burmese pythons laying in wait beneath his porch, even a mysterious stalker who...