Summer's Child

Awesome book

Ultimate read i highly recommend this book

Summer's Child by Luanne Rice This is the first story of Mara

Summer's Child by Luanne Rice
This is the first story of Mara Jameson. She had gotten married and was pregnant. Then she just disappeared and years later no one had heard of her again.
Patrick Murphy is the retired state police detective who is intrigued by the reports of Maya and tries to track her down by clues left. Her parents are dead and she had lived with her grandmother, Mauve. Mauve's best friend, Clara grew up together in the seaside town of Hubbard's Point.
At Cape Hawk Rose plays with Jessica and it's close to her birthday and she has high hopes of seeing the whale, Nanny who comes to visit her every summer.
Capt Hook is the local oceanographer and has a love interest in Lily
and captain of the ferry where he has an office near Rose's mom yarn shop where Rose's mom, Lily rented the store along with an apartment for them both.
Jessica can't even tell her best friend that her birthday is the same date as Roses cuz her dad might come find them and make them go back to live with him. She has bad dreams of what he did to a dog. She is now happy to be away from him where nobody knows them.
hate how the husband they ran away from uses the internet to get others to send him money and to trick her into sending a message under one of her alias names. He will be able to track down where she is now. Reminds me of one coming into an authors chat saying her daughter and
family had gotten burnt out of their home and she loves to read. Ended up getting the author to send her books and I'm thinking to myself what's wrong with the free library? Hope it didnt happen and I do hate scammers.
Cool to have all these various stories connected by just one person. Like how the stories are all told.
Love new things this book has taught me, pocket rosary also known as chapette, i've made these for nursing home.
Also pine needle pillows-how neat of an idea!
This book follows Rose's journey to better health.
There are just a few things that link this whole book and all the characters together. What a tale!

great

I loved it great read. i wish there had been more with the ending. But I still enjoyed it.

BAD ENDING

The story was interesting enough and, obviously, Rice did a lot of research into the medical aspect of the book. The ending, however, to me was awful!! As I read the book I turned the page, expecting for her to start tying in loose ends. That wasn't the case---the book ended with an advertisement page for her next book. Then, it started up again with the events leading up to Mara/Lily marrying this psychopath. There were way too many unresolved issues such as: Did her grandmother live? Did Edward do something to the furnace in the cellar which made Maeve ill (as the story alluded to)? If so, was he ever caught and convicted? Overall, I thought it was a very poor ending to a "soso" book.

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Luanne Rice outdid herself!

I purchased Summer of Roses to read while vacationing only to find out it was a sequel. I headed out to get Summer's Child. Could I read it all before I left? Not a problem. I have read about five of Luanne Rice's books. This is by far the best yet even though I have enjoyed her others immensely! It had everything--mystery, romance, family love. It endears the reader. This is a must read!

good book

this book was like watching a good lifetime movie ..it's deffently worth reading

Good but not great!

This was not one of Luann Rice's better books. It seemed very confusing in the beginning and seemed like too many story lines in one plot. About half way through it did get better than turned into a page turner at that point. I just started the sequel to this and it seems much better.

Beautiful Book

This is a splendid book, totally recommended for everyone. It is loving, kind, funny and touches the heart, some parts made me wanna cry and then other parts laugh. I will be buying Summer of Roses (second part to this book)...cannot wait to receive it.

I loved it!!

The sweetest story. Made you feel like you really knew the characters and were really there with them

A Sheer delight!

Am reading this book now & enjoying every page. Have read many Luanne Rice novels & find each a reading pleasure.

touches your heart

This was the kind of book that you really care about the characters and what happens to them. Summer's child is a defenite must read

The suspense grips the audience from the start

Every June 21, the Connecticut media makes a big show of the vanishing of pregnant pixie Mara Jameson nine years ago. Like everyone else retired State Police Officer Patrick Murphy, who worked the still unsolved case, reflects on how the married Mara went out to work her grandmother¿s rose garden, but vanished; but unlike most people who believe her spouse Edward Hunter got away with killing Mara Patrick believes she is alive....................... In Cape Hawk near the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Lily Malone owns the store In Stitch while raising her almost nine years old daughter Rose alone. Rose has a heart condition that has required surgery and will require one more operation. Lily reflects back to when she was Mara knowing she misses her beloved grandmother but fears what Edward would do to their child if he ever found them; that dread that he will do something ugly made her run in the first place. However, the past is catching up to Lily who fears Rose will be his victim if he finds them................ The suspense grips the audience from the start even though the lead protagonist does not make an appearance until a few chapters into the gripping story line. Instead readers ¿see¿ Mara through the eyes of her grandmother and Patrick; ironically Edward¿s perspective comes out much later well after the audience has met Lily, Rose, the child¿s best friend Jess and their kind neighbor Dr. Liam Niell. Lily is a courageous soul struggling not to be a ¿bruised rose¿ before returning home (see the upcoming SUMMER OF ROSES for those events) with Liam at her side ready to protect both of his females................ Harriet Klausner

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