Captain of Nothing

Bea Okonkwo has exactly one thing: the St. Ambrose debate team, which is on probation and needs a state qualification to survive. Her best debater, Tavo Ferrante, has a family that just made his older brother a capo, and Tavo has started asking Bea for small favors. Hold a bag. Forget a name. Tell the dean he was at practice. By the state tournament, Bea is carrying something in her debate bag that could end her season, her team, and the only boy who has ever taken her seriously. A high school capo romance about a captain who covers for the wrong person and the tournament she wins anyway.