The ketterman family series

Five siblings. Five love stories. One family learning that the life God writes is always better than the one they planned.

The Ketterman kids were raised on a simple gospel: you are what you produce. Keep the ledger. Earn your place. Never let anyone see the cost.

Now they're grown and scattered across the country. Drew is a football coach in small-town Texas, chasing the college job he's wanted his whole life until the eligibility coordinator who won't shake his hand makes him wonder what he's actually been counting. Carly is the first woman to run Clayton State's athletic department, and she's about to fire the basketball coach and declare war on the booster who owns the school. Kevin is a sports doctor running on empty, undone by a runner who'd rather break than stand still. Jason made the majors, made millions, and is quietly going broke keeping the lights on for kids who can't pay. And Lily walked off the mat at nineteen and spent eight years convincing everyone it was the day she broke until a man who says stop starts to see all the way through.

Every one of them is fine. Every one of them built fine by hand.

And every one of them is about to meet the person who won't let them keep pretending.

Warm, wholesome, and full of hope, the Ketterman Family novels are clean Christian romances with real emotional stakes and no spice stories about worth, courage, healing, and grace you were never meant to earn.

Each book is a complete love story with its own happily-ever-after, but the family grows and changes across the series, so they're best read in order.

Book 1 — Fourth and Long · Drew's story

Book 2 — The Curveball · Carly's story

Book 3 — The Recovery · Kevin's story

Book 4 — The Long Game · Jason's story

Book 5 — The Dismount · Lily's story 

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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The Long Game: A Sweet Christian Sports Romance (Ketterman Family series Book 4)

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She speaks in numbers. He speaks in heart. Neither one can save what matters alone.

Paige Holloway crossed the bridge to audit a struggling youth baseball academy—not to fall for the man determined to keep it alive.

When Paige was thirteen, her family lost everything. Ever since, she’s believed one simple truth: feelings are expensive, and...

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The Dismount : A Sweet Christian Sports Romance (Ketterman Family series Book 5)

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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...

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