The Dismount : A Sweet Christian Sports Romance (Ketterman Family series Book 5)
About
She walked away at nineteen. The hardest part wasn’t surviving. It was believing she deserved to.
Lily Ketterman left behind the gym that nearly destroyed her and built a quiet life on the other side of the country, far from the memories she refuses to face.
No one here knows she was once an elite gymnast.
No one knows what her coach did in the name of greatness.
No one knows why one small word—rest—can still steal the air from her lungs.
Here, she’s fine.
Or at least she’s learned how to look that way.
She built that fragile peace one careful day at a time, and she’ll do anything to keep it intact.
Then she meets physical therapist West Callahan.
Everything about his profession reminds Lily of the life she worked so hard to escape. She expects him to push.
People always do.
Instead, West does something she’s never experienced before.
He stops.
He doesn’t force. He doesn’t pry. He doesn’t try to fix her—because he carries a wound of his own. Once, he loved someone he couldn’t save, and ever since, he’s been careful never to reach too far again.
Two guarded hearts.
Two painful pasts.
Two people who have learned, from opposite sides of heartbreak, that healing can’t be forced.
But healing isn’t what scares Lily most.
Being truly seen is.
And little by little, West is beginning to see through every wall she’s spent eight years building.
Can Lily trust someone enough to catch her before the past she’s buried finally demands to be faced?
The Dismount is the fifth 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.
Heartwarming, hope-filled, and deeply rooted in faith, The Dismount is a wholesome Christian romance about surviving the past, finding the courage to be fully known, and discovering that love doesn’t heal by fixing someone—it stays, believes, and walks beside them until they can heal.