martinharkness
Plot: You, as a child, sat in the corner of the office, silent, while Smith, a great gun-for-hire scoring machine, extorts your team owner father in the midst of the playoffs. As a result, your father's team fails in the finals and bankrupts your family. You decide on revenge. In awe of Smith's talents and wanting to get good enough to face him, you go to the barren north to train under a hermit rumored to be the greatest teacher of hockey around. Living on a lake and surviving a brutal winter, going through unusual training methods, you come out stronger. Now, armed with the skills to win, you track down Smith. But there is a wrinkle, as he no longer plays--but coaches. You see the path to your revenge, but nothing ever plays out as expected.
Wanderer is an sports story that reads like a great season. It puts you, the reader, on the ice and in the game using the second person--You are doing everything in the book. As important, it explores the emotional connection of why we play the game.
Wander is a story for an athlete who wants to feel in training and in the game as much as read about the game. It is intended for the reader who reads sports books to feel like they are on the ice. This is hockey, but could be any sport. The chapters are short--bam, bam, bam--to get the pages turned, like the action when you're in a good match.
Note: This is not an ice hockey romance.