Playing Time

Jessica James built her life around control — her career, her home, her son's future. But control has a way of slipping through even the steadiest hands. When the new football coach at Cream City High upends her careful world, what begins as parental ambition becomes a tangle of secrets, choices, and consequences that no one can neatly undo. By the end of the season, a mother's pride, a teacher's code, and a woman's conscience will collide under the Friday-night lights.