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Twenty years ago, Dominic Shaw was a senior in high school and the best football player in East Texas. On the precipice of a state championship, he fled the small town of Tate. Everyone from his teammates to his family viewed this as a complete betrayal. In a community that lived and breathed football, Dom had cost them their best chance at football immortality. Now unemployed and desperate, he's forced to return home to face his demons. His former head coach offers him forgiveness and a chance at redemption, coaching linebackers for the Tate Timberwolf football team, and Dom thinks that his fortunes might finally be improving. However, not long after his arrival, a series of gruesome murders and unexplained phenomena shake the town to its core. With nowhere else to turn, he employs the help of the only person he can trust, former girlfriend and current sheriff's deputy, Emily Dodge, who might provide the help he needs, if she doesn't kill him first. Along the way, they discover a crazy ex-military inventor, psychotic brothers raised deep in the swamps, an ancient assassin on a mission, and a decades-old conspiracy.How does Dom balance saving himself, his reputation, his players, and the town's hopes for that elusive state championship?Dominic Shaw finds out the hard way that success in Texas high school football, like rebuilding the bonds of family and trust, requires blood, sweat, and tears. Especially blood.