Richard Zeppieri
Cassady Jones finds herself in a melee that shocks the sports world, while leaving the EFC (Excelsis Fighting Championship) in the most tumultuous period of its history. In the aftermath Cassady is given an opportunity along with seven other female competitors to fight in a tournament to crown a new Champion. Understanding that her big break is at hand, Cassady decides to take advantage of the opportunity and comes face to face with her greatest opponent. Cassady comes to the realization that it's not just in another fight, it's the fight for everything.
The Testa family is a well respected immigrant working class family. The patriarch, Tullio Testa, is a modest landscape contractor, anxious to impress his visiting brother from Italy with his success in the New World. Tullio and his brother have not spoken for over twenty years due to a dispute over land inheritance in Italy. To create the appearance of a man of leisure, Tullio turns the business over to his sons, putting Massimo, the younger, educated, favourite son in charge. Joe, who has worked alongside his father in the dirt, is shunned.
A divorced mother faces the bitter irony of being suspected of child abuse when in fact her own teen son is taking verbal and physical swipes at her.
Talented rookie race-car driver Jimmy Bly has started losing his focus and begins to slip in the race rankings. It's no wonder, with the immense pressure being shoveled on him by his overly ambitious promoter brother as well as Bly's romance with his arch rival's girlfriend Sophia. With much riding on Bly, car owner Carl Henry brings former racing star Joe Tanto on board to help Bly. To drive Bly back to the top of the rankings, Tanto must first deal with the emotional scars left over from a tragic racing accident which nearly took his life.
Teens participating in mock war games using paint guns discover the contest growing dangerously out of control.
