Deep End

Deep End

Author: Ali Hazelwood Listening Length: 13h 45m
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A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from the bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis. Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A junior at Stanford and a student athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrat...

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T HE THING I DREAD THE MOST ABOUT JUNIOR YEAR BEGINS on a Wednesday morning, a couple of weeks before the start of the autumn quarter. It’s penciled into my Google Calendar for the ten to eleven slot, a single word that weighs more than the sum of its letters.

Therapy .

“This is somewhat unconventional,” Sam tells me on our first meeting, no judgment or curiosity in her tone. She appears to have mastered neutrality in all facets of life—her beige pantsuit, the medium grip of a handshake, an ageless, graceful look that could be anywhere between forty and seventy. Is it too early in our acquaintance for me to want to be her? “I was under the impression that Stanford Athletics had its own team of licensed sports psychologists.”