"What does your success look like? Visualize that success. I crack a lid, just to make sure I'm not wandering off course. "Inhale success." The fresh scent of grass and trees tickles my nose, and I think maybe someone nearby might be wearing cologne, because I get a whiff of that, too. "And breathe in success." Podcast Woman sucks in a windy breath.
"Exhale your anxiety," the motivational podcast woman exhales into my ear. It's a shortcut and also a place where students hang out between classes. "Visualize success," I murmur, and close my eyes as I cut across the open field. "Close your eyes and visualize what your success looks like. It's my first day of law school and I'm determined to go in with a clear mind. I resist the urge to check my schedule again-I know exactly where my class is since I walked the route yesterday and focus on the podcast. (Aug.The key to success is to visualize it." The soothing voice commands my attention, mostly because I'm wearing earbuds and it blocks everything else out. Agent: Kimberly Brower, Brower Literary & Management. Readers will hope for a return to Forest Lake. Lively supporting characters, including Lilah’s sassy sister, Carmen, add fun to the mix. Hunting imbues her characters, especially Lilah, with quick wit and enjoyable depth, and the curveball she throws into the plot at the end is truly surprising, yet believable.
But having been abandoned first by her father and then by Ethan, Lilah’s not sure she wants to try again-especially when she finds out Ethan may just see her as a good luck charm. Ethan knows that breaking up with Lilah was the biggest mistake he ever made, but he begins trying to woo her back. Now a nurse in their hometown of Forest Lake, Lilah sees Ethan’s father being admitted to the hospital and knows that Ethan’s arrival won’t be far behind. Just after NHL player Ethan Kase is traded from Chicago to his home state of Minnesota, his cantankerous father has a stroke-and Ethan comes face-to-face with his biggest regret: Delilah Jane, the childhood sweetheart he abandoned eight years earlier. Hunting ( Getting Down) sparkles in this well-plotted contemporary about a struggling and superstitious hockey player, his devastated ex-lover, and the hope and joy of second chances.
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