A Different Kind of Courage — H.W. Coyle

How does a person go about rebuilding a life that they willingly tried to throw away? For Andrew Newly, this journey begins by realizing that to live his life as he was meant to, it will take a different kind of courage.

A Different Kind of Courage is the story of Andy's efforts to piece together a new life for himself by returning to the college he left after his freshman year and the restaurant where he and a group of friends bought into a crazy bet that changed Andy's life forever. Together with those friends, he struggles to gather up the frayed threads of his life and begin the daunting task of building a new one for himself, this time as a girl named Amanda.

In this endeavor, Amanda finds that she must not only find a way of dealing with a host of issues and problems that are as confusing to her as they are complex, to include a relationship she's not prepared to deal with, she must also come to terms with a past that seems to have no place in her new life.

This already difficult journey is complicated by Amanda's friendship with Tina Anderson, the daughter of a wealthy entrepreneur who has accumulated a fair number of enemies who prove to be as much a threat to Amanda as they are to the Andersons, causing Amanda to draw upon a past that she is desperately trying to put behind her.