THE GOAL I DIDN'T EARN
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Marin "Mars" Kessler scored the goal every athlete dreams about. Four seconds left in sudden death overtime, eighteen thousand people on their feet, a championship in her hands. Eleven minutes later, her best friend was dead.
The school calls it a heart condition. Mars knows better. She saw the rival goalie's glove drop half an inch too early. She saw Tess tap the crossbar twice, their secret signal for danger, at a stranger in a gray coat. And she saw numbers taped across Tess's mask, written by someone running out of time.
Then Tess's secret cracks open. Her name wasn't Wynn. She was a Halloran, heir to a billionaire empire, and her older brother Rhett, the ice cold captain they call The Professor, blames Mars for her death. Tess's last message to him: Ask Mars about the goal.
Forced into a dangerous alliance, two enemies follow a ledger into the dark world of a betting syndicate that fixes championships. But the ledger lists Mars's winning goal two weeks before she scored it.
Her glory was bought. Her best friend paid for it.
Now Mars must decide what a trophy is worth, and whether the truth is worth everything she has left.
The school calls it a heart condition. Mars knows better. She saw the rival goalie's glove drop half an inch too early. She saw Tess tap the crossbar twice, their secret signal for danger, at a stranger in a gray coat. And she saw numbers taped across Tess's mask, written by someone running out of time.
Then Tess's secret cracks open. Her name wasn't Wynn. She was a Halloran, heir to a billionaire empire, and her older brother Rhett, the ice cold captain they call The Professor, blames Mars for her death. Tess's last message to him: Ask Mars about the goal.
Forced into a dangerous alliance, two enemies follow a ledger into the dark world of a betting syndicate that fixes championships. But the ledger lists Mars's winning goal two weeks before she scored it.
Her glory was bought. Her best friend paid for it.
Now Mars must decide what a trophy is worth, and whether the truth is worth everything she has left.


















































