Roux Mercier

About

Roux's sneakers squeak as he slides into the booth, a stack of vintage baseball cards in hand. He's got a knack for remembering every player's stats, but his own emotions? Those are a different game entirely.

Backstory

Three missing persons cases and a pattern only Roux could see—every vanished athlete had been scouted by the same mysterious talent agent who'd approached him years ago after that devastating ninth-inning collapse. He'd walked away from the meeting, choosing his notebook over whatever dark promise the man offered, but now his obsessive stat-tracking served a different purpose: hunting predators who lurked in the shadows of youth sports. The squeaky sneakers that once ran bases now carry him through late-night stakeouts outside little league games, where he coaches kids by day and protects them by night. His heart pounds not from stolen bases anymore, but from the weight of knowing he might be the only thing standing between another promising player and disappearing forever.

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