The Best Summer of Our Lives by Rachel Hauck

 

Twenty years ago, the summer of '77 was supposed to be the best summer of Summer Wilde's life. She and her best friends, Spring, Autumn, and Snow--the Four Seasons--had big plans.

But those plans never had a chance. After a teenage prank gone awry, the Seasons found themselves on a bus to Tumbleweed, "Nowhere," Oklahoma, to spend eight weeks as camp counselors. All four of them arrived with hidden secrets and buried fears, and the events that unfolded in those two months forever altered their friendships, their lives, and their futures.

Now, thirtysomething, Summer is at a crossroads. When her latest girl band leaves her in a motel outside Tulsa, she is forced to face the shadows of her past. Returning to the place where everything changed, she soon learns Tumbleweed is more than a town she never wanted to see again. It's a place for healing, for reconciling the past with the present, and for finally listening to love's voice.

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About The Author

 

Rachel Hauck is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author.

She is a Christy Award Winner and a double RITA finalist. Her book The Wedding Dress was named Inspirational Novel of the Year by Romantic Times Book Club. She is the recipient of RT's Career Achievement Award.

Her book, Once Upon A Prince, was filmed for an original Hallmark movie.

Hauck has been acclaimed for her split time novels and royal romances.

A graduate of Ohio State University with a degree in Journalism, and a former sorority girl, Rachel and her husband live in central Florida. She is a huge Buckeyes football fan.

In other news, she's recently learned how to hard boil an egg. She's quite proud.

Visit her at www.rachelhauck.com or www.facebook.com/rachelhauck

 

My Review

 

Four Florida friends from kindergarten are about to sprout their wings and go to college in the fall, but alas a teenage prank, and they are doing community service in Oklahoma.

This story is told in dual time, spanning twenty years, and begins at the camp they are sent to, and it becomes a catalyst to life changing decisions, but the four do add a new member!

The story is primarily Summer's life, but yes, we do get involved in Springs, Autumns, and Snows, and baby Seasons! They are also dealing with a death of a season's brother. There are big bomb shells, and wow surprises, I never saw coming!

By the end of the summer you will wonder if the Season's will even still be friends, but keep turning those pages!

I received this through the Publisher Bethany House, and was not required to give a positive review.