[A LookingForAlaska contest entry] Leah Coates coaches softball at Franklin Community College, but dreams of becoming a detective - and helping stop crimes like the one she endured as a child. Can she overcome her devotion to the players and the uncertainty of a new, possibly dangerous path? Welcome to Franklin, a city in full. Grace and pettiness, ambition, despair. Threats. Hunger. Heroism. Six sorts of love. More children every day. The NFL's Franklin Federals - Go Feds! The roaring Shawnee, which never floods Franklin Heights but routinely devastates the Falls side. You've passed through before, reader. Now come a bit farther off the interstate.