The thirteenth in a series of fourteen books by Abbie Joules about her brother, Bendigo, as they grew up on their hard-scrabble farm in east Texas. Ben's high school classmate, Ziggy Pugh, an undersized nerd with an oversized ambition, desperately wants to play football. With everything on the line in the last few seconds of the district title game, Ben, the team star player, has to make a decision about whether his own ambition to play football in college is more important than Ziggy having one chance in a lifetime to play just one time. The choice he makes has far reaching consequences, for both himself, Ziggy, and Abbie.