In this unforgettable novel from USA Today bestselling author C. G. Cooper, a college football star struggles to pull himself free from his father's tangled past. It's 1989, and college freshman Michael Greco is ready to leave his dreary small town—and the grief of his father's death—behind. He has everything he needs for a great year: a starting spot on the football team, new friends, and a promising flirtation with a beautiful grad student.
But just as Greco settles in to campus life, his uncle shows up demanding that he take care of his father's unfinished business with a powerful Chicago gangster. As Greco is drawn further into this cutthroat world, he struggles to shield his troubled younger brother and spiraling mother from the truth. Can he figure out who he is, and what sort of man he wants to be, before the past extinguishes any hope of a different future?
Unflinchingly honest, C. G. Cooper's Greco is a complex exploration of identity, alienation, and the weight of atoning for inherited sins.