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    Summer's End: A Novel

    By Kathleen Gilles Seidel

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    To their respective families, Jack Wells and Amy Legend are outsiders.A free-spirited man-of-all-trades, Jack takes life as it comes—not atall like his supremely organized mother, the admiral’s widow, and hismethodical lawyer sister. Amy, a professional athlete with exquisitetaste and golden beauty, has a glamorous career a world apart from herbookish older siblings and college professor father.

    When Jack’s mother marries Amy’s widowed father, they invite allthe children to spend the summer at the Legends’ retreat in northernMinnesota. They never imagine just how well Jack and Amy are goingto get along—as affection unexpectedly flares into a burning attractionthat threatens to damage already fragile familial bonds. Agreeing to denytheir desire until the vacation is over—caught between long-simmeringconflicts and clashing personalities—Jack and Amy find, nonetheless,that they are falling deeply in love. And passion this strong couldn’tpossibly wait until summer’s end . . . no matter what the consequences.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 3, 2011
    ISBN9780062096944
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    Summer's End: A Novel
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    Kathleen Gilles Seidel

    Kathleen Gilles Seidel is the author of 13 novels. She has a PhD in English Literature from Johns Hopkins, and now lives in Virginia with her husband and two daughters.

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    • 2/5
      I liked parts of this book but there were just as many I didn't like. The main characters of the book are for the most part very unemotional. Their internal and external dialogue is very straight forward and lacking in nearly any feeling. I also didn't enjoy the family tension parts of the story. It just reminded me of why I don't enjoy family gatherings in general. I really liked the lake setting and the idea of a family that spends it's summers at a lake. Ultimately there wasn't enough depth to the characters in order for me to connect with them.
    • 5/5
      I love this book. It is a particularly light drenched romance. It's more about families reconnecting than a couple, but the central couple is charming and interesting and you want to spend more time with them. A keeper I reread often. I give it only 4.5 stars, because the central romance could have had a bit more attention (meaning I want a longer book, not anything else cut out!) but otherwise a gem.