When I'm Looking Back

When Olympic snowboarder Channing Melendez dies after a devastating accident, he leaves behind a legacy his nine-year-old son, Wesley, wants nothing to do with. For years, Wesley refuses to touch a snowboard or even look at falling snow, unable to separate the sport from the loss that shattered his world.

Everything changes at twelve years old, when he meets Bo Davenport-a man who becomes mentor, anchor, and eventually the closest thing to a father Wesley has left. Under Bo's guidance, Wesley rises through the competitive circuit, slowly trading grief for passion and rediscovering the sport his father once loved. By twenty-two, Wesley is a professional in his own right, on the verge of reaching the Olympic stage Channing once stood on.

Until the fall.

At the competition designed to launch his career to the next level, Wesley misjudges a landing and suffers the worst injury of his life. A shattered leg. A hospital room. Sponsors pulling away. And the paralyzing fear that his career-and his father's legacy-are over.

But Wesley isn't alone. Bo refuses to let him walk away from everything he fought for, and Freya, the compassionate nurse assigned to his case, becomes a steady force through the pain and self-doubt. Through grueling physical therapy, sleepless nights, and moments when he's ready to quit, they stand beside him.

And when Wesley can no longer believe in himself, Bo believes enough for both of them.

Months later, stronger than before but carrying new scars, Wesley returns to the same snow that took him down-determined not just to live up to his father's name, but to build a legacy that is finally, fully his own.