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The Last Days of Summer

The Last Days of Summer

Author(s): Vanessa Ronan

Location(s): Texas

Genre(s): Mystery

Era(s): Modern

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She can forgive. They can’t forget.

After ten years in the Huntsville State Penitentiary, Jasper Curtis returns home to live with his sister and her two daughters. Lizzie does not know who she’s letting into her home: the brother she grew up loving or the monster he became.

Teenage Katie distrusts this strange man in their home but eleven-year-old Joanne is just intrigued by her new uncle.

Jasper says he’s all done with trouble, but in a forgotten prairie town that knows no forgiveness, it does not take long for trouble to arrive at their door …

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There are some occasions in late summer, even in Britain, when the heat can gradually build up until it becomes oppressive. Finally the clouds thicken and the light changes and you know a storm...

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