Fourth and Long : A Christian Football Romance (Ketterman Family series Book 1)

He calls plays for a living. She’s about to call an audible on his heart.

Drew Ketterman came to Granger, Texas, for one reason: to win football games.

Ten years as an assistant. One ruined knee. A career he’s measured by the scoreboard since the injury ended his playing days at twenty-two. Granger’s small-town 4A program is his first shot at leading — and the last step before the college job he’s chased his whole life.

He didn’t come here to be known.

He definitely didn’t come here for Erin Walsh.

As Granger High’s eligibility coordinator, Erin has benched more of his players than any defense he’ll face all season. She has no patience for coaches who treat the classroom as an obstacle — and at the welcome luncheon, in front of the entire staff, she refuses to shake his hand.

But Erin has spent eight years waiting for a coach who believes a book in a kid’s hands matters as much as a helmet on his head. And Drew has never met a woman who could stop him cold with one quiet sentence about Philippians 3.

He tells himself she’s an obstacle.

She’s beginning to feel like the destination.

Then the call comes — the one he’s been running toward since he was a boy. A Power Five program. The kind of job that doesn’t open up for a man in his first year as a head coach. The opportunity that’s supposed to answer, once and for all, the question of who he is.

Everything he’s worked for is finally within reach.

He should feel certain.

He’s never been less sure of anything in his life.

Some victories are won. Some are surrendered — and Drew Ketterman is about to learn the difference.

Fourth and Long is the first novel in the Ketterman Family series: five siblings, five unforgettable love stories, and one family discovering that the life God writes is always better than the one they planned. A wholesome, faith-filled romance guaranteed to leave your heart fuller than you found it.