First published 2025
Grace Woodhouse watches from the sidelines as senior year begins. Her transition cost her everything that mattered: her friend group, her girlfriend, and the Division I football scholarship her right foot was supposed to secure. She had been the best kicker in the state before coming out as trans forced her into early retirement. Now Grace navigates new social circles and searches for her identity beyond the sport that defined her. Then her former teammates approach her with desperate pleas. They need her skills on the field again. The team that she thought had rejected her forever suddenly wants her back. A unexpected encounter opens a door she believed had closed permanently. Grace faces an impossible choice between the game that shaped her life and the person she has become. She must decide what parts of herself she will sacrifice to return to football.
Genres: fiction, contemporary, sports
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, second-chance
331 pages · Hardcover · Levine Querido