The Last ChampionJohn Wright was a hometown hero the powerful star of his high school wrestling team and a promising Olympian. He could have had it all but one bad decision destroyed his dreams and forced him to leave under a cloud of scandal that has haunted him ever since. Twenty years later, John returns to his small town after his mother's death, hoping to save his family home from foreclosure. His icy reception proves his former friends and neighbors still

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