Novel: Around the Blue Star

South African soccer player, Jed Robinson, attempts to distance himself from a scandal by escaping to Chicago and focusing on the legacy school he hopes to build. When he meets gifted athlete, Nick Castle, an African-American teenager from a rural town in Michigan, he attempts to recruit him, but Nick's father, Carl, is determined that his son focus on a more lucrative sport.

Jed turns on the charm to manipulate Nick's tutor, Tessa, an overweight and plain girl, to help him speak to Carl and Nick on his behalf. But, Tessa is focused on maintaining a quiet existence to recover from a terrible tragedy and when Jed's scandal pulls her right back into the public eye, she is forced to confront her past.

First Chapter: Around the Blue Star»