Allie Wyatt has always been second best. Second to her perfect sister, second to her parents' expectations, second to everyone else's idea of who she should be. Field hockey is the one place she can win on her own terms. Her ticket out, a D1 scholarship and a clean break from her family's toxic scorekeeping, feels so close she can taste it.Then Chris Patton walks in: charming, confident... and her sister's secret crush. When sparks fly, Allie tells herself she deserves one thing that's hers. But secrets have a way of surfacing, and Allie is forced to face the wreckage of her choices and her sister wanting revenge.Allie has mastered every play on the field, but when passion and betrayal twist the rules, she'll learn that some games don't end at the final whistle. Split Stick is a perfect storm of sibling rivalry, buried secrets, and shattered trust in a world where love might be the most difficult game of all.