Winds of Glory

<p><strong><em>In Glory Grove winning comes at a cost.</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Brock Gallagher is troubled as he returns to Glory Grove. His marriage has fallen apart. His mother is dying and a multinational energy corporation is tempting area families with a promise of easy money for leases on their land to build a giant wind farm. It pits neighbors against one another escalating to acts of violence.</p><p></p><p>Amid the turmoil Brock rekindles a relationship with Ronnie Jepson his beautiful high school sweetheart while agreeing to help hapless coach Buster McHue turn the <em>Grizzlies' </em>basketball team around. Their efforts are threatened by the arrogant banker Roland Donigan who plots to sabotage the team as a way to steal Ronnie away from Brock.</p><p></p><p>Brock has always been a winner in sports. But his personal strength is also his defining weakness...an insatiable desire to win at everything he does. He now faces his biggest challenge: can he learn to win beyond the scoreboard?</p><p></p><p><em>Winds of Glory</em> is the gorgeous follow-up to Gary Bye's award-winning debut novel <em>Glory Grove.</em> Bye returns to the fictional small town and its people in this moving exploration of conflict and connection with a healthy dose of the novelist's signature strengths-dry humor and the excitement of high school sports.</p>