Let It Go Author:Halvorson, Marilyn Lance was lying in front of the fire, drawing. He was working on an eagle soaring high above a rocky ledge. Far below, you could just see the thin thread of a creek winding across the valley. Just looking at that picture, I could hear the sound of the eagle's wild, defiant scream. It sent a shiver up my back. That had to be his best drawing... more » yet.
The voice of the MC on the TV show broke into my thoughts. "And now, ladies and gentlemen, what you've all been waiting for..." A girl with long, dark, hair and a skin-tight white satin suit was walking across the stage. Wow! Country music was developing a certain appeal all of a sudden! I whistled and nudged Lance with my toe. "Hey, get a look at her!"
"Yeah, yeah," he muttered without looking up, his mind still on the wing-feather he was shading. The girl finished the song and the MC started talking again. "Isn't she something, ladies and gentlemen? Nashville's latest sensation - the one and only Anne-Marie Charbonneau!"
Lance did look up then - and froze. He didn't say a word. He didn't move. Just stared at that screen like he was seeing a ghost. Then suddenly he turned and glared down at me, his eyes blazing dark fire. "I hate her!" he yelled. "I hate her guts!"
Written in the same hard-hitting sympathetic manner which made Marilyn Halvorson's "Cowboy's Don't Cry" an award-winning first novel, "Let It Go" is the powerful story of an unusual friendship between two boys growing up in Alderton, Alberta.« less