Luck is a fickle playmate at best. It's fleeting, illusive,
and we all crave it. But what would happen if you suddenly
got lucky and your life changed to be exactly the way you
wished it would be? Would it make you happy?
Billy Rendall longs for her life to be different. She wants
a promotion at work, her husband to be more loving, for
Evan, a co-worker that she has had a crush on forever, to
pay attention to her and for a bitchy co-worker to be gone.
She complains to her therapist that she needs her luck to
change, and is surprised when the wise woman gives her a
small jade frog as a gift. Thinking that the what-not is
just a dust-catcher, Billy takes it home and puts it on her
nightstand without another though. But when she wakes up
the next day to her husband's amorous attention, arrives at
work to discover she has been made a vice-president with
the company, Billy thinks her luck has finally changed. Her
day is made even better when she is allowed to fire Alexa;
the co-worker who Billy thinks has made her life miserable.
But after a couple of days of perfection, Billy soon begins
to feel a sense of something gone wrong. Have her husband's
constant loving attention is begin to wear her out. The VP
job she had coveted turns out to be harder than she
expected it to be, and the loving advances of her co-worker
Evan is beginning to feel a bit creepy. And the guilt over
firing Alexa, especially when Billy discovers that the girl
is not what she thought she was, is beginning to wear on
Billy's nerves and conscious.
Laura Caldwell weaves a spicy, lively tale in her latest
novel, THE NIGHT I GOT LUCKY. Written in a humorous, fast-
moving vein, Caldwell gives her readers a look at life in
the world of promotional work through the eyes of her
young, sassy character Billy Rendall. This is a delightful,
insightful story that will keep readers on the edge of
their seats as Billy finds her life was all so bad in the
first place, lucky or not.
When Billy Rendall suddenly gets everything she wants, it
turns out to be the last thing she needs...
A long-awaited promotion. Freedom from emotional baggage. A
newly - ahem - amorous husband. What's wrong with
this picture? Well... everything. For starters, Billy hasn't
actually earned any of it. Instead, like some character in a
fairy tale, this stuck-in-a-rut publicist had all her wishes
granted overnight - which feels great, at first.
But soon Billy's brand-new success starts to unravel--who'd
have thought becoming a VP would be so Very Painful? Or that
a harmless crush on a co-worker would turn not-so-harmless
now that he's crushing back? It'll take a surreal,
rollicking, high-stakes journey for Billy to realize what
she really wants out of life...before it's too late.
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