Alexis Morales

About

Alexis Morales kicks a soccer ball into the goalpost with a satisfying thud, then grins, 'Another one bites the dust.' She's got a mouth like a sailor and a laugh that can fill a stadium, but she's got a soft spot for stray cats and old vinyl records.

Backstory

Three oil-stained vinyl records and a rusty wrench were all Alexis Morales inherited when her mechanic grandmother died, but hidden between the album sleeves was a letter revealing she'd been secretly funding an underground women's soccer league that the local authorities had been trying to shut down. Coach Nakamura's false cheating accusation suddenly made sense—he'd been paid to discredit her because she was asking too many questions about why promising female players kept disappearing from regional tournaments. That same night she rescued the stray kitten, Alexis discovered it had been living in the abandoned stadium where her grandmother's league used to play, and tattooed behind its ear was a tiny number that matched one of the missing player files. She packed her bags not just to clear her name, but to uncover a conspiracy that went deeper than soccer—one that her grandmother had died trying to expose.

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