Sports fans live and die by their groups’ successes and failures-though not literally. But these fifteen authors have written spirited-in more ways than one-new tales of killer competitions that would make actually the most die-hard players inquire to become benched. In #1 New York Times bestselling writer Charlaine Harris’s “In the Blue Hereafter,” Manfred Bernardo learns about softball from a certain blond barmaid in Louisiana. Life-and-death stakes make your competition obtain serious in New York Times about Games Creatures Play bestseller William Kent Krueger’s “Hide and Look for.” New York Moments bestselling author Mercedes Lackey’s “False Knight on the highway” includes a high-stakes drag competition on the foggy mountain road between a clever young bootlegger and a incomprehensible stranger. In NY Times bestselling author Laura Lippman’s “Glaciers,” a young girl learns the real story behind a little bit of neighborhood folklore. New York Times bestseller Seanan McGuire presents “Jammed,” when a chimera loose during a Roller Derby match helps it be anyone’s guess as to that will still be skating by the time the buzzer sounds. In #1 NY Times bestselling writer Brandon Sanderson’s “Dreamer,” a game of cops and robbers is normally a new problem when the players are able to switch bodies at will. And NY Times bestselling author Scott Sigler follows ghost stomper Hunter Hunterson as he investigates a haunted, never-ending football game in “THE SITUATION from the Haunted Safeway.” These and eight more supernatural sporting tales are assured to have you rooting for the home team…or else…