trauma. healing.
A wounded girl learns how to dream.
A wounded woman learns how to love.
Each becomes the answer to a question the other didn't know she was asking.
3 Books. 1 novel. 1 amazing story.
About the novel
In this three-book novel, readers enter the lives of 33-year-old Grace Gresham-Nelson, former Olympic gold-medal sprinter and a nationally successful athletics director at the elite Beck Academy in Atlanta, Georgia; and 16-year-old Tracy Sullivan, a shy but gifted basketball player from a housing project who enrolls at Beck when she comes to live with her aunt.
Grace, the wife in an adored celebrity marriage, is the most admired, stylish, and popular member of the Beck faculty. She is also the most guarded—until Tracy Sullivan arrives. When Grace observes Tracy’s amazing athletic ability, and when she sees in the girl reminders of Grace's younger self, the woman's famous wall of privacy begins to crumble.
But what Tracy and the other students don’t know is that the Olympian Grace Gresham has never truly stopped running—from her past—and that not everything that glitters in her life is gold.
Janet Walker’s
AMAZED BY HER GRACE
For anyone who’s ever had a crush on a teacher
I was deeply moved and captivated by her storytelling. The journey through faith, grace, and redemption is powerful.
David Brown Jr., stage and screen actor
About the Novel
A Tale of Two Protagonists
Tracy Sullivan has spent most of her life trying not to be noticed.
Shy, gifted, and carrying scars from a painful childhood, she enters Beck Academy with little expectation that anything about her life is about to change.
She is wrong.
Grace Gresham-Nelson, legendary Olympic champion and coach of Beck Academy's championship girls' basketball team, is admired by students, respected by colleagues, and protected by walls few people ever manage to breach. But when she notices something extraordinary in Tracy, an unexpected bond forms between two people whose lives could not appear more different.
As Tracy discovers confidence she never knew she possessed, Grace finds her carefully ordered world shifting in ways she never anticipated.
Then the past returns.
What begins as a story of wholesome friendship, mentorship, and personal growth gradually unfolds into a sweeping drama involving family secrets, buried wounds, public scandal, long-lost relationships, and the difficult choices required to heal.
Introduction of characters. the plot's foundation.
The two stories blend. the story moves forward.
unexpected outcome. remarkable. worth the trip.
