The Recovery : A Clean Christian Sports Romance (Ketterman Family series Book 3)
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She runs through the pain. He’s the one telling her to stop.
Riley Graves has been running her whole life — away from a hometown that only ever asked her to hold everything together, and toward the one scholarship standing between her and everything falling apart.
Running is how she survives.
So when the team’s new sports-medicine doctor reads her scan and tells her the stress fracture in her shin needs eight full weeks of rest, she counters with four. The conference championship is six weeks away. Her whole future is riding on one small bone.
Kevin Ketterman has never had a patient fight him this hard.
Careful, methodical, almost impossible to rattle — and quietly running on empty himself. Twelve-hour days. A couch he calls a bed. Two thousand miles between him and the family who loves him enough to miss him, but not enough to make him come home.
He knows exactly how to heal a fracture. He has no idea what to do with a runner who’d rather break than stand still.
He’s her doctor.
That’s all he’s allowed to be.
But somewhere between the arguments over mileage, the hard-won compromises, and the quiet acts of care that never show up on any bill, something neither of them planned begins to grow.
Then the bone heals. The boundary lifts.
And the offer he’s carried in his pocket for weeks — a position in another state, everything his career was always supposed to lead to — comes due at the exact moment staying would finally cost him something.
Some things can’t be outrun.
Some people are worth standing still for.
The Recovery is the third 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 healing, surrender, and learning that the bravest thing isn’t always pushing through — sometimes it’s choosing to be still.