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A queer YA romance about rival soccer players from author Racquel Marie perfect for fans of She Drives Me CrazyValentina Vale CastilloGreens life revolves around soccer Her friends her future and her fathers intense expectations are all wrapped up in the beautiful game But after she incites a fight during playoffs with her longtime rival Leticia Ortiz everything shes been working toward seems to disappearEmbarrassed and desperate to be anywhere but home Vale escapes to her beloved childhood soccer camp for a summer of relaxation and redemptiononly to find out that she and the endlessly aggravating Leticia will be cocaptaining a team that could play in front of college scouts But the competition might be stiffer than expected so unless they can get their rookie teams act together this second chanceand any hope of playing college soccerwill slip through Vales fingers When the growing pressure friendship friction and her overbearing father push Vale to turn to Leticia for help what starts off as a shaky alliance of necessity begins to blossom into something more through a shared love of soccer and maybe each otherSharp romantic and deeply emotional You Dont Have a Shot is a rivalstolovers romance about rediscovering your love of the game and yourself from the author of Ophelia After AllYou Dont Have a Shot has every ingredient that makes rivalstolovers such a great trope but its also so much more Its a story of grief and loss of legacy of culture of holding the things and people that bring us joy close I dont think anyone will be surprised when I say that Racquel Marie has done it again this is truly young adult contemporary at its bestJonny Garza Villa author of the Pura Belpr Honor Book Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun