The Last Play of the Season
An Achingly Real YA Novel of First Love and a Second Chance, and the Summer That Made HerBy Lewis B. Aldermoor
Length7h 14m
About this audiobook
Everyone thinks Jake Calloway has it all.
They're not watching the sideline.
The summer before senior year was supposed to be Jake's victory lap — D1 scouts circling, a state title within reach, and the kind of first love with Marisol that feels like catching lightning in a bottle. He's worked his entire life for this moment. Every perfect spiral, every early morning in the weight room, every Friday night under stadium lights.
But every pass Jake throws is shadowed by his father's voice.
A former gridiron legend who treats Jake's career like his own second chance. A man who sees a scoreboard where his sons should be.
When Jake's chronically ill little brother Cody collapses at preseason practice and doctors deliver a grim warning — one more hard hit to his fragile heart could be fatal — Jake waits for his father to finally put family first.
Instead, his father pushes Cody harder.
He hides medical clearances. He demands both sons chase the ring at any cost. He calls it toughness. He calls it legacy.
Jake calls it what it is: a trap closing around someone he loves.
Now Jake is caught in the most brutal play of his life — one with no good option. Expose his father's obsession and blow his family apart. Or stay silent and risk losing the brother he taught to throw a football before the kid could even tie his cleats.
As the championship game looms, Jake begins to understand what the last play of his career will have to be: a deliberate, season-ending mistake. One that will torch his scholarship, shatter his father's approval, and brand him a failure in front of every scout he ever dreamed of impressing.
Because some wins cost more than losing.
The Last Play of the Season is a raw and emotionally charged YA sports novel about first love, family sacrifice, the pressure of athletic legacy, and the courage it takes to choose the person over the prize.
Perfect for readers who love coming-of-age stories, Friday night lights drama, teen athlete fiction, and the emotional honesty of Cade Buckley and Carl Deuker.
An unforgettable, heart-cracking coming-of-age story.
Audiobook details
GenreYoung Adult
Length7 hrs 14 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Prologue
3Chapter 1 - The Hammer That Built Me
4Chapter 2 - The Armor He Passed Down
5Chapter 3 - The Silence Between the Snaps
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6Chapter 4 - The Half-Life of Heroes
7Chapter 5 - The Weight of One Bad Heart
8Chapter 6 - The Devil’s Own Huddle
9Chapter 7 - The Requisitioned Brother
10Chapter 8 - The Spy and the Story
11Chapter 9 - What the Body Remembers
12Chapter 10 - The Report and the Rupture
13Chapter 11 - The Ghost in the Gameplan
14Chapter 12 - The Tapeworm in the Huddle
15Chapter 13 - Where the Line Is Drawn
16Chapter 14 - The Absolution Play
17Chapter 15 - The Morning the World Stops
18Chapter 16 - The Row That Held Only Absence
19Chapter 17 - The Last Play of the Season
20Chapter 18 - The Boy Who Threw It All Away
21Chapter 19 - The Embers of the Pyramid
22Chapter 20 - The Shoulder That Held Me Up
23Chapter 21 - The Playbook in the Wall
24Chapter 22 - The Testimony of the Stands
25Chapter 23 - The Enemy Across the Line
26Chapter 24 - The Last Handoff to a Rival
27Chapter 25 - The Windmill Lesson
28Chapter 26 - The Clinic of Second Downs
29Chapter 27 - The Play That Never Ends
30Epilogue
31About the Author
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