Here is a description of "More Than A Game" in the words of the protagonist, Carter Mason: I know what I look like: a stereotype; a fatherless black kid pinning his hopes on a football scholarship. But I've got the skills and the smarts to back it up. One night, and an innocent dance with a white girl, and my whole world and all my dreams start to unravel. The killing begins. People are looking at me. And the circle of people I can trust is getting smaller by the day. I can feel the net closing in. I have to find the killer before he finds me. I have to play the best football of my life. I...

Powerball winners are being murdered and their winnings are missing. A decorated former Marine officer is tired and broken until given another shot at life: a loving girlfriend, a lottery commissioner's job, and a seductive female governor as his new boss. Within his first week as a commissioner, Brent Layne discovers he's trapped in a corruption pit with everyone around him either lying or dying.