The Curveball: A Small-Town Christian Sports Romance (Ketterman Family series Book 2)
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She fired the basketball coach. What she really did was declare war on the man who owns the school.
Carly Ketterman didn’t come to Clayton State to make friends.
Fourteen months ago, she became its first woman athletic director—the fifth person to hold the job and the only one willing to look beneath the floorboards. Now she has the proof: a corrupt basketball program, twenty-nine documented violations, and a booster empire built to make sure none of it ever came to light.
Firing the coach was the easy part.
Jasper Whitt bankrolls that program to the tune of $1.3 million a year. He bought her predecessor a comfortable retirement.
And he has never lost.
Carly has no room in her life for anything else—least of all the baseball coach who walks his budget proposal into her office at 7:14 on a Tuesday morning and never once looks anywhere but her face.
Nate Lawson knows the cost of waiting. A torn elbow stole the pitch he’d built his career on, leaving him one rung short of everything he’d worked for. He’s done letting fear decide the things that matter.
Carly matters.
The problem is, she’s his boss.
The pressure closing around her is relentless. And the institution that hired her may have no intention of letting her finish what she started.
As the case moves toward its reckoning—and a young pitcher arrives at the same crossroads that once shattered Nate’s dreams—two guarded hearts discover that courage was never measured by the final score.
Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is refuse to flinch.
When the boosters close ranks and the board finally meets, Carly will learn exactly what her convictions are worth—and whether the life she fought so hard to build has room for the one thing she never expected.
Some people spend their lives chasing the win.
A few discover there’s something far stronger to stand on.
The Curveball is the second 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 about integrity, courage, and the quiet strength it takes to do what’s right when everything is on the line.