Death stares Jenny Winfield in the
face. At 18,000 feet above the valley floor, her hang glider jerks and bucks
and threatens to go inverted. Beside her, hanging in his own harness, Scott
McCabe is unconscious. She is the
novice, yet it is suddenly up to her to save both their lives.
When Jenny first meets Scott, such a
scenario is unthinkable. She knows nothing about hang gliding and is plagued by
a fear of heights. Further, she cannot imagine herself attracted to a man whose
very soul is pre-programmed, and yes, often unyielding.
Jenny is a free spirit with no sense of
time, and Scott is a disciplined, clock-watching commercial airline pilot--with
secrets too painful to reveal. Clearly, such disparate personalities will never
be lovers.
Yet fate throws them together when the
two jointly inherit a struggling hang glider manufacturing company. The year is
1980. Jenny is charmed by the passion she sees in the youth-oriented business .
. . while Scott is disgusted by the sloppiness of the place—especially when he
witnesses a young man flying across the assembly room on a trapeze. He wants no
part of it, and immediately tries to sell the company while they can still
recoup a few dollars.
Abruptly the two realize they must
compromise and make decisions neither really wants. Conflicts emerge: who will
prevail in their differing views of the enterprise? Will Jenny overcome her
fear of heights to fly as part of an epic and terrifying
hundred-thousand-dollar hang gliding contest?
In a final twist, it’s Scott’s
unyielding honesty during a vital competition that nearly ends their chance at
lasting love.
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As
background for this story, two of my sons were famous in hang gliding
circles—the oldest as champion of the United
States, Canada,
and Great Britain.
In 1975, they made Skyriders, a 20th
Century Fox hang gliding movie. Many of WAIT
FOR THE WIND’S zaniest scenes were drawn from actual events as my family endeavored to keep our well-regarded
hang gliding company alive.
Who
could have predicted Wills Wings is now the world’s premier company?
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