Title:
Summertime
Author: Christina Cole
Series: Stand Alone
Genre: Historical Romance
Publisher: Secret Cravings Publishing
Release Date: Aug 2013
Edition/Format Available In: eBook & Print
Blurb/Synopsis: SUMMERTIME is the story of Linn Sparks, a young woman who wanted more than
rural Kansas could offer. A talented singer, she craved fame, fortune, glamour
and excitement. She found it all as a star of the stage at the Crown Theater in
San Francisco.
It’s also the story of Ed Ferguson. For him, life was far
less complicated. All he wanted was Linnie Mae, but she’d left him standing
alone at the altar seven years before when she ran off to pursue her dreams.
Now, it’s 1914. War is breaking out in Europe, and Linn
Sparks has come home to Brookfield, Kansas. She plans to stay only a few days –
just long enough to help negotiate the sale of her parents’ farm.
At first, it seems that nothing has changed in the quiet
little country town, but Linn soon learns otherwise. She’s surprised to find that Ed is now
spending a lot of time with Polly Washburn. An even greater surprise comes when
she meets six-year-old Thaddeus, Ed’s son. But perhaps the greatest surprise is
that the town of Brookfield is now building a theater to honor Miss Tabitha Ann
Collier, the spinster music teacher who helped Linn make her dreams come true.
Now that she’s come back, surely she’ll be offered the lead
in the theater’s first production — a musical penned by Tabitha Ann herself.
But staying in Brookfield means facing a lot of unpleasant realities. Between her strained relationship with a
father who never wanted her, a mother whose grasp on sanity is slipping away,
and the feelings she still has for Ed, Linn is overwhelmed by emotions.
She must also find a way to deal with Polly, the woman who
was once her closest friend but who now has her eyes on Ed. And how can she handle Quentin Loonsfoot, the
obnoxious son of the man her father
crippled in a hunting accident years before? Quentin is determined to
make her feel guilty — and to make her pay for her father’s mistake. Most painful of all, she must accept the
truth about Ed and his relationship with Rachel Johnson, the woman who gave him
a son.
Ed has a lot to deal with as well. He still loves Linnie
Mae, but he knows she won’t stay. How can he spend the summer being near her
and not get his heart broken again?
It’s a hot summer in Brookfield…a summer of hopes and
dreams, a summer of passion. Could it also be a summer of forgiveness?
FTC Disclosure: I received this book for free from the author, editor, publisher, or Promo Host. This is my honest opinion about this book and I did not receive any monetary compensation for writing this review nor was I obligated to write a positive one
