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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
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“The series hums with conflict and surprise, and what’s even more satisfying is the remarkable interiority of Walker’s characters.
We not only observe Grace, Tracy, Darrel, Charmaine, and the others, but enter into their heads and hearts—so that we happily celebrate their virtues and begin to understand their failings.”
- David J. Hogan, author of numerous works examining the cultural influence of cinema, including an everything-you-wanted-to-know about the 1939 classic movie The Wizard of Oz. (Find his book here!)

David Brown Jr., stage and screen actor
“As they negotiate sex and marriage, the streets, personal and professional competition, and their spiritual lives, Walker’s characters grow, stumble, and then grow some more. This is rich stuff.”
- David J. Hogan, Chicago author
and
retired executive editor and book publisher.
Editor-in-chief of Legacy Imprint's Chronicle series, including its best-selling The Holocaust Chronicle.
Readers all over the country have enjoyed this novel, first published on December 12, 2012. (See readers' reviews here.)
To honor the book's twelfth anniversary, the author revisited the story, revised the text for the final time, and enlisted publishing experts to prepare a new, appealing, December 2024 print and digital edition.
AMAZED BY HER GRACE
Three books. One novel. One amazing story.
PARENTS, NOTE:
This novel contains mature language and subject matter and is not appropriate for children.