Craig Leener

Craig Leener writes fiction for teenage readers that combines basketball with speculative adventure, friendship, and questions about responsibility. All Roads Lead to Lawrence is the second novel in his Zeke Archer Basketball Trilogy and follows This Was Never About Basketball. A few months after Zeke helped prevent the game from being erased, a message from another realm prompts another journey with Lawrence Tucker and their friends. The route points toward Lawrence, Kansas, whose connection to James Naismith gives the series both a real basketball landmark and a place for its larger mythology. Green Buffalo Press published the 334-page sequel in September 2019. Leener continues the trilogy's blend of sport, mathematics, alternate dimensions, and emotional stakes, asking what loyalty means when a team faces losses that cannot be solved on a court. The later It Was Always About Basketball completes the arc, making this middle volume the bridge between Zeke's first confrontation with the Seventh Dimension and the trilogy's time-traveling conclusion.