After the death of her husband, Hannah Larson needs a change. At the suggestion of her mother-in-lawтАФand against her better judgmentтАФshe and her son Jack move to tiny Utopia and into her husbandтАЩs grandmotherтАЩs house.
When Jack and Lindsey form an unlikely friendship, Hannah reluctantly joins them and the three spend the summer swimming and healing as laughter eventually replaces tears. After Jack goes back to school, Hannah assumes their summer fun is over. Instead, Lindsey continues to come around and nowтАФas they find themselves aloneтАФHannah realizes just how close theyтАЩve become. Soon, she finds herself struggling with her feelings as their friendship threatens to shift into something much deeperтАжsomething she fears she wonтАЩt be able to fight. Something she fears she wonтАЩt want to fight.
A story of grief and healingтАжa story of love.
Gerri Hill has thirty published works, including the 2014 GCLS winner The Midnight Moon, 2011, 2012 and 2013 winners DevilтАЩs Rock, HellтАЩs Highway and Snow Falls, and the 2009 GCLS winner Partners, the last book in the popular Hunter Series, as well as the 2013 Lambda finalist At Seventeen. Gerri lives in south-central Texas, only a few hours from the Gulf Coast, a place that has inspired many of her books. With her partner, Diane, they share their life with two Australian ShepherdтАЩsтАФCasey and CooperтАФand a couple of furry felines.