ISBN: 978-1-68313-277-6
280 pages
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Circle Of Adversaries
by Sally Whitney
They've been friends for years.
Now they suspect each other of attempted murder.
In a small southern town in 1984, another basketball season is brewing, just like the ones before.
Only this time, there's a new family in town, and Quentin Thomas becomes the first Black player on
the eighth-grade team. He's also the best player. The boys welcome him, but some parents have doubts.
They don't want Quentin to steal attention from their sons in the competitive world of North Carolina
basketball. Tensions grow, parents bicker, and some try to fire the coach. Throughout town, neighbors
gossip about the effect the new player has on the team.
One night, as Quentin rides his bicycle home from practice, a car hits him from behind and speeds away,
leaving him broken in the road. Was it an accident or a deliberate attempt to take him off the team? If
it's deliberate, who did it? Nearly everyone in town has an opinion, and most of the parents suspect each
other. Tensions rise to the boiling point.
Praise for Circle Of Adversaries
"Character by character, Sally Whitney expertly draws us into her story. We become part of this town,
diving into the viewpoints of multiple family members. We empathize with the volunteer basketball
coach trying his best to resurrect a winning team. We feel for the brooding teens who train and play
hard, while stoically struggling with broken homes, demanding dads, and adolescent self-doubt. Racial
issues push their ugly way into the story, engaging the reader even more deeply. In all, a fascinating
and thought-provoking read."
- Deborah Shouse, author of An Old Woman Walks Into a Bar
"In Circle of Adversaries, a hit-and-run car accident shatters a Black star basketball player's bones,
and his small southern town's sense of trust and community. With unfaltering empathy and honesty, Sally
Whitney's gripping prose rips the facades off apparent long-standing friendships, exposing the jealousy,
racism, guilt, rage and suspicion simmering under the surface."
- Merry Jones, author of Maincrest Media Award-winner The Woman in the Cupboard
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Sally Whitney
Although Sally Whitney has spent most of her adult life in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas, and New Jersey, her
imagination lives in the South, the homeland of her childhood. "Whenever I dream of a story," she says, "I
feel the magic of red clay hills, magnolia trees, soft voices, sudden thunder storms, and rich emotions. The
South is a wonderland of mysteries, legends, and jokes handed down through generations of family storytellers,
people like me."
Sally is a fan of stories in almost any medium, including literature, theater, and film. She'd rather spend an
afternoon in the audience across from the footlights than anywhere else, and she thinks DVDs and streaming movies
are the greatest inventions since the automobile. She loves libraries and gets antsy if she has to drive very far
without an audio book to listen to.
The stories Sally writes have been published in literary magazines and anthologies, including Grow Old Along With
Me—The Best Is Yet To Be, the audio version of which was a Grammy Award finalist in the Spoken Word or Nonmusical
Album category. Her stories have also been recognized by the Syndicated Fiction Project and the Salem College National
Literary Awards competition.
In nonfiction, she's worked as a public relations writer, freelance journalist, and editor of Best's Review magazine.
Her articles have appeared in magazines and newspapers, including St. Anthony Messenger, The Kansas City Star, AntiqueWeek,
and Our State: Down Home in North Carolina.
Sally currently lives in Maryland with her cat, Ruth. When she isn't writing, reading, watching movies, attending plays, or pursuing
her most recent interest—playing pool—she likes to poke around in antique shops looking for treasures. "The best things in life are
the ones that have been loved, whether by you or somebody else," she says.
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