Echo Yun is the newest rookie of the nationally-renowned square racing team, Corvus, with all the attention, secrets, and controversies to prove it.
Halfway to the finale of the Grand Prix Championships, Echo is in a fight for not only a way to escape his dark past, but for a chance to hold onto his budding life with Corvus, and his growing closeness with their captain, Kane King, that is proving harder and harder to walk away from. But the more entangled Echo becomes, the more lies he uncovers about Kane’s otherwise-cryptic history, until he discovers something that could shatter Corvus altogether, and break Kane beyond repair. Between that, his father’s debt, his boss’s deadly threats, and his brother’s shadow creeping around the corner, Echo is finding it increasingly difficult to be honest with those close to him without losing them completely. But when his growing pile of secrets begin to break the seams of Corvus as his days dwindle down to the finish line, he’s forced to reconcile with who he wants to be in his final hour—and who he’s going to take down with him.
It’s the last round of the night. Who’s going to come out on top?
Gemma Young is a Korean American coffee addict and Los Angeles native who hops between the practical world of the everyday and the impractical world of writing. The results tend to come out in realistic fiction that steal from not-so-realistic situations, packaged with Asian American narratives, tumultuous romances, piercing dialogue, and whatever newest obsession she has going at the time, whether it be cheesecake recipes or molecular chemistry. If she’s not huddled in a corner typing to oblivion, she’s busy writing poetry, playing guitar, or finding the next espresso-fueled daydream to make a story out of.