Seventeen year old, Maverick T. Stanley is an athlete, not by choice but by compulsion in hopes to be accepted among the other popular kids at his high school. Only thing is: even with the many images he's portraying still has some people suspicious that he is gay, a crime punishable by death in this "New Not-United States of America. To make matters worse, Maverick has his eye on one particular player, Hunter Odell Easton, who he feels would make him feel accepted if he'd only be his boyfriend. But things aren't quite that simple, Key Motivations: Want to be loved, to express their feelings for others, to be needed and appreciated, to get others to respond to them, to vindicate their claims about themselves. since Hunter O. isn't gay! And so Maverick uses what he knows best-- a catfish account. But with AI. Will Maverick finally snag Hunter?