Summer After Summer by Ann DeFee, Everlasting Love, #16, September 2007
This is the telling of the lives of Jasmine Bourdeax and Charlie Morrison and what happens each time they meet in the Summer of 1973, 1993 and 2007.
Summer 1973- Jazzy has been in love with Charlie for as long as she can remember but he has always treated her as a buddy and started dating one of her good friends. Charlie and her friend broke up, but her friend announced she was pregnant and that she and her family had decided it was best she go away. Charlie had no clue what was up and Jazzy couldn't tell him, because she had made a vow to her friend. When Charlie discovered what was going on, he was upset with Jazzy for not telling him. Things were strained with the two of them for a bit, but Charlie came around and apologized, also telling Jazzy that he has cared for her a long time. Because he had gotten a girl pregnant, the small town they lived in shunned him and Jazzy ended up sneaking around to see him. But her parents catch her and ground her for the two weeks of summer that are left before she heads to college in California. Charlie breaks things off with Jazzy in a note. Jazzy leaves, mad at Charlie because she didn't think he cared for her.
Summer 1993- Jazzy, now a successful architect in California and with a rock on her finger, decides to go back to Texas for her 20 year high school reunion and runs into Charlie. Are there still feelings between the two? Yes, and Charlie asks her to marry him. But she gets a phone call that her mentor and her soon to be father in law was dieing so she rushed back to California and ended up getting married.
Summer 2007- Two years after a divorce, Jazzy comes back to her Texas hometown. This time if she was to rekindle a romance with Charlie it will have to be forever. But how would her daughter feel about staying and also including Charlie and his son in their life? But 14 years ago she left Charlie heartbroken. Can he put the past behind them?
This story is of an incredible journey of two people who never let their first love die and always found their way back to each other. A lot of times I felt as though Jazzy flew off the handle and did rash things. Even her mother and a friend told her point blank that she flitted in out of town and they are left to deal with the aftermath, especially the last time. That was why nobody bothered to tell her that Charlie had moved back. I thought Charlie always forgave too easily but thought it was romantic that he still wanted her after 34 years.
Warning- This book is in the first person.
Excellence Rating- Good+ ~ Steaminess Rating- Sensual (*)
Personal total- 96 ~ harl/sil- 79 ~ other- 17
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