'Til Summer's End


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As Sarah announces shes pregnant, Geology Professor Mark Kingsley retreats into silence -- their perfect marriage arrangement over. Still she remains until the doctoral acceptance letter from the University of Washington arrives. While Mark is on another hiking trip, Sarah moves out, his only contact a monthly check. In Seattle, work, graduate classes, motherhood and preparations for a return trip to West Africa for her dissertation in ethnomusicology leave Sarah little time for remorse or to grieve her grandparents recent tragic deaths. Surely, a week on the Idaho family farm will rejuvenate her and give her time to reflect. On the drive over, Sarah can almost hear the bacon sizzling in the cast iron skillet, taste her mothers cinnamon rolls. Mornings shell join her Dad on the porch to watch the sunrise above the Idaho wheat fields and listen to the meadowlarks song. Refreshed, shell leave Rachel with Mom and Dad, head back to Seattle, play matron of honor in her best friends wedding then fly to Ghana for the summer. She and her mother enjoy a shopping trip to Lewiston and reminisce while sorting through Grandma Myers hats. Will Sarahs perfect plans quickly unravel? Her menopausal mother still mourns her parents loss, her recently married younger brother is confrontational. Nightmares, unexplainable fatigue and a lengthy, soul-searching counseling session leave her exhausted and struggling to wake and her best friends wedding hoopla is another reminder shes a pining, sorta-single mom. In Ghana, fear and desperation pulse through her body with every drum beat. Exhaustion overtakes her, frightening the family whose hut she shares. Whats wrong with Sarah? Til Summers End, explores the interconnectedness of three generations -- the strain of birth, death, aging, mental and physical illness and marriage -- to pull apart or bring together. -




Until Summer Ends


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Sophie Newton is determined to prove herself to her father, who insists she could never run a successful business. She throws herself into her beachside taco stand, The Sandy Tortilla, and makes it her primary goal to show him that he’s wrong, one burrito at a time. When she loses her summer help, Sophie rushes to find a warm body to help take orders. She finds that body—and what a body!—in Montgomery Winters, a struggling actor from LA. It may not be show business, but Mont figures he can write an order for fish tacos. The money’s dead useful, though he finds it’s the curvy company that really keeps him around. As Sophie and Mont work together, they discover an intense attraction between them. But when Mont's agent calls him about a career-making audition, he decides he must pursue the opportunity, even though he can't get Sophie out of his head. Now, Sophie must choose between chasing after the man she's falling for and the business she's fought so hard to build.




'Til Summer Comes


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Any year always has a lot of touching memories. Those who are old enough now can recall both good times and bad in the middle of the last century. In this book, from September of 1948 to August of 1949, a group of teenage girls and boys are on the brink of adolescence. Author David Chapman shares his most cherished memories of growing up in Bradford, Illinois, a prairie village in the years between the end of World War II and the dawn of television. From the excitement of a high school football game to lazy summer evenings, Chapman's fictionalized recollections of days gone by offer a nostalgic glimpse into America's rural past.




Til Summer Comes Around


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Amethyst, WI is a small, peaceful town on a pristine lake with an active tourist season in summer. When the air turns chill, the area is transformed into a ghost town with only a handful of lifers who stay. Amethyst is bursting with mystery, romance, and jealousy all-year-round. When Quinn Rutledge and Summer Rosales met on a warm summer night on the shores of beautiful Lake Amethyst, they were both young, all was right in the world, and the only thing on their agenda was romance--one that neither of them wanted to end with the summer and closing of resort town Amethyst's tourist season. Promises and plans were made. Promises were broken... Summer was just about to begin law school with her closest friend--her pole opposite who'd dragged her to Amethyst in the first place. Apple Wooten came from a rich family she didn't appreciate and was sliding her way through life, trying to get the most fun she could out of it--including stealing just to see what she could get away with. Summer found herself in the unfortunate position of taking the blame for one of Apple's thefts, and not only spent time in jail but also was the victim of an inmate's wrath that led to the disfigurement of one side of her face before she was acquitted of all charges and allowed to pursue her law degree. Quinn had a lucrative dream career stretching out before him as an author who'd already won numerous accolades despite his youth. Though he'd returned to his livelihood after the summer with the woman he'd fallen so hard for, his heart prevented him from keeping away until they could see each other again the following summer as they planned. When Summer didn't show up, he'd tried to find her and couldn't. Though he should have returned to his writing, he's instead found himself settling in Amethyst, waiting hopefully, and probably foolishly, through endless winters until Summer comes around...







SUMMER'S CHILD


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Early on the morning of her eleventh birthday, on the beach beside her North Carolina home, Daria Cato receives an unbelievable gift from the sea—an abandoned newborn baby. When the infant’s identity cannot be uncovered, she is adopted by Daria’s loving family. But her silent secrets continue to haunt Daria. Now, twenty years later, Shelly has grown into an unusual, ethereal young woman whom Daria continues to protect. But when Rory Taylor, a friend from Daria’s childhood and now a television producer, returns at Shelly’s request to do a story about the circumstances surrounding her birth, something precarious shifts in the small town of Kill Devil Hills. The more questions Rory asks, the more unsettled the tiny community becomes, as closely guarded secrets and the sins of that long-ago summer begin to surface. Piece by piece, the mystery of summer’s child is being exposed, a mystery that no one involved—not Shelly, Daria, not even Rory—is prepared to face.




Til Summer Comes Around, Book 5 of the Adventures in Amethyst Series


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When Quinn Rutledge and Summer Rosales met on a warm summer night on the shores of beautiful Lake Amethyst, they were both young, all was right in the world, and the only thing on their agenda was romance-one that neither of them wanted to end with the summer and closing of resort town Amethyst's tourist season. Promises and plans were made. Promises were broken... Quinn had a lucrative dream career stretching out before him as an author. Though he'd returned to his livelihood after the summer with the woman he'd fallen so hard for, his heart prevented him from keeping away until they could see each other again the following summer as they planned. When Summer didn't show up, he'd tried to find her and couldn't. Though he should have returned to his writing, he's instead found himself settling in Amethyst, waiting hopefully, and probably foolishly, through endless winters until Summer comes around...




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