At Kingston High, football is everything—and Ryder Gunem is its face. The star quarterback and golden boy of a wealthy, influential family, Ryder lives under constant pressure to maintain perfection, success, and legacy on and off the field. When y/n, captain of the underfunded track team, is forced into Ryder’s orbit, he’s seen as nothing more than an overlooked athlete from a neglected program. But y/n carries a past no one at Kingston knows about—he was once Sora Silvers, a football prodigy known as the “Ghost Receiver,” who disappeared after a devastating house fire that took his family and forced him into a new life and identity. Ryder offers y/n a deal: join the football team in exchange for real funding and recognition for track. What begins as a strategic arrangement slowly turns into something far more complicated as the two are forced into constant proximity, both on and off the field. As y/n’s hidden talent resurfaces and Ryder begins questioning the life built for him by expectation and legacy, rivalry blurs into trust, and trust into something neither of them is ready to name.
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