The Coach S Widow

A perfect marriage. A young husband with a budding career. A single phone call that stunned a newlywed wife and a small Arkansas community.At twenty-seven, Alexis McMahan's life had finally molded itself into perfection ... until the call that ended it all and forced her to start over.Through Christ, Alexis and Jorre McMahan had overcome tumultous circumstances while they dated, leading Jorre to become a football coach. Bonded together by Christ, football, and their impassioned love, the pair married, and Alexis assumed her new identity as Coach Mac's wife. Three months after their wedding, in the midst of football season, Alexis's picturesque world shattered when Coach Mac collapsed and died on the field, surrounded by his players.Jorre's unexpected death at the age of twenty-six confronted Alexis with the unknowns of young widowhood and so much more--the tragedy of Coach Mac's death unearthed his painful secret. The hidden truth cracked Alexis's perception of reality and catapulted her into an angry pit of despair. There her faith wavered ... until she chose to trust the only one who could pull her out and into the light: Jesus.

A man without a her is a man without hope. So believes Coach Zuke who has returned to his hometown of Horseshoe, Indiana to be the head basketball coach. Zuke wants to meet a woman. It's not long before possibilities emerge: his girlfriend from high school teaches in the room next to him, there is the older sister of one of his players, a girl he knew from college, and a botched matchmaking attempt by his best friend Cheese. Troubles mount in the form of angry parents and an assistant coach who has plans to steal the head coaching position. Set in 1994 to the backdrop of the OJ Simpson murder trial, Kurt Cobain's death, and Prince Charles's confession on television to having cheated on Lady Di... The Coach's Wife is a novel about the trials of coaching in a basketball-obsessed state and what happens to one young man desperate to find a wife.

Passing the time through another grueling NFL season, B.J. Almond, the wife of a head coach, discovers her husband cheating on her and is further outraged to learn that the other football wives in her circle knew about the affair, a situation that compels her to reveal dirty secrets. Original. 15,000 first printing.