Book Info-
Title- The Coach’s Wife
By- Barbara Casey
Genre- Mystery/Suspense
Publication Date- March 2014
Published By- Archebooks Publishing
Synopsis
Another deafening roar exploded from the coliseum, and
when it did Marla threw down her partially smoked cigarette and ground it into
the polished tile floor with the toe of her shoe. Quickly she reached for another cigarette
from the opened pack in her small red handbag.
She lit it, sucked the smoke into her mouth, held her breath, coughed,
and then slowly released it. Marla
didn't smoke, but when she paced up and down the hallways of basketball
coliseums, puffing on cigarettes seemed appropriate. It gave her something to do with her hands,
and it helped keep her sane.
Marla Connors, recently married to
head basketball coach Neal Connors, travels with her husband to Albuquerque,
New Mexico, where the Piedmont State University Coyote team is playing in the
NCAA Finals. Marla has not been accepted
by the Coyotes, that loyal bunch of fans who follows the university team,
partly because she is almost twenty years younger than Coach Connors and a
divorcée, but also because the fans are afraid she will distract her husband
from his duties as head coach. They see
her as someone who married Coach Connors just for his money. Only Gale, the older wife of assistant coach
Stu Simmons, goes out of her way to be a friend to Marla.
The Coyote team is plagued with problems
from the very beginning of the season, and when they finally manage to reach
the NCAA Finals, it's even worse. Their
center is caught using drugs, Athletics Director Charlie Morgan, who is also in
Albuquerque for the games, makes a pass at Marla in her hotel room, and Coach
Connors comes down with the flu. No one
believes that State can win the big game.
With so much happening, Marla can't shake
the feeling that something evil is taking over her life. She tries to convince herself that it is
emotional anxiety left over from the abuse she experienced during her first
marriage to Dr. Martin Andrews and that the stress from the tournament has
brought it once again to the surface.
She soon learns, however, that the evil is real and it threatens not
only everything she loves, but her very life.
Illegal drugs, illicit affairs, murder, and
scandal that shakes the entire university system are woven inextricably into
Marla’s life until eventually she comes face to face with her real
tormentor. It is only then that she
realizes the full depth of her love for her husband--and his love for her.
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About the Author
Barbara Casey is president of the Barbara Casey Agency,
representing authors throughout the United States, Great Britain, and Japan.
She is also a manuscript consultant and the author of numerous articles, poems,
and short stories. Her award-winning novels have received national recognition,
including the Independent Publishers Book Award. Her novel, The House of Kane,
was considered for a Pulitzer nomination, and The Gospel According to Prissy,
also a contemporary adult novel, was released in the spring of 2013 and
received several awards including the prestigious IPPY Award for Best Regional
Fiction. Her most recent young adult novel, The Cadence of Gypsies, received
the Independent Publishers Living Now Award and was reviewed by the Smithsonian
for its list of Best Books.
In addition to being a frequent guest lecturer at
universities and writers’ conferences, Ms.
Casey served as judge for the Pathfinder Literary Awards in
Palm Beach and Martin Counties,
Florida, and was the Florida Regional Advisor for the
Society of Children's Book Writers and
Illustrators from 1991 through 2003.
Links
Website- http://www.barbaracaseyagency.com/
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