One Clean Season (Paperback)

Marcus knew every step of the twelve-minute walk to the gym. Basketball was the one place the noise stopped. Then Ellis sold him the first one, and the game that was supposed to save him became the thing he had to survive. One Clean Season is a 42-chapter recovery novel about a young ballplayer from Dayton who has to decide what winning actually means — not on the scoreboard, but when nobody is watching and the old life is one phone call away. It is about coaches and corners, AAU summers, and the season-long work of becoming someone you can live with. For anyone who believed the game could be the way out — and learned the way out had to come first.