The All for the Game series is centered around the main character Neil Josten and a fictional sport called Exy, which is "a bastard sport, an evolved sort of lacrosse on a soccer-sized court with the violence of ice hockey". He gets signed on by Palmetto State University to play Exy, where he meets someone from his old life. And as it turns out, Neil isn't the only one with a bit of damage.
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