That’s How Heartaches Are Made

About the Book

Cornelius Alexander Anderson, Jr. a.k.a. “The Deuce” is not only a skilled and talented professional basketball player but he also shows potential as a leader and a coach. Serving as a coach and motivator at the Olympic Games in Montreal he finds himself in an important position to influence the decisions of the IOC. He has made some decisions and investments that have made him quite wealthy. With his loyal circle of friends, he has helped to make their special group savvy investors who carry on a note-worthy enterprise. The Deuce is the namesake and only son of his father, Cornelius Alexander Anderson, Sr., president of an HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities). The whole dynamic family still seeks to guide The Deuce’s life and influence his decisions. When he meets Elaine Drummond, a beautiful, shy college girl, she proves to be much more of a dynamic go getter than he could have ever imagined. Her life takes an unexpected turn that will cause conflicts for both of them.

About the Author

Elizabeth Walton Cooksey has been a high school teacher of English, a social worker, a newspaper reporter, and a college professor. She is a wife, a mother and grandmother. Her love for writing and telling tales of adventure and free-wheeling lifestyles has roots in her childhood. She loves animals, dogs in particular and loves writing and hearing stories about them. She is a Mississippian and with her husband who is a retired General Motors executive she has lived in many states. She helped her husband to write his autobiography, No Time to Cry, which tells of his Army service during the Viet Nam conflict and his time as the plant manager of the world’s only Corvette plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She is now working hard to finish Book 2 of her novel, That’s How Heartaches Are Made.