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Authors: Mary Alice Monroe

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Interior design by Jaime Putorti

Cover design by Laywan Kwan

Cover images: photo of woman © Tim Pannell/Corbis;

 photo of grass © Vera Kailová/Alamy

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Monroe, Mary Alice.

 The summer wind / Mary Alice Monroe.

  pages cm.—(The lowcountry summer trilogy)

 1. Grandmothers—Fiction. 2. Granddaughters—Fiction. 3. Sisters—Fiction. 4. Self-realization in women—Fiction. 5. Sullivan’s Island (S.C. : Island)—Fiction. 6. Domestic fiction. 7. Psychological fiction. I. Title.

PS3563.O529S88 2014

813'.54—dc23 2014008588

ISBN 978-1-4767-7002-4

ISBN 978-1-4767-0901-7 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-4767-0904-8 (ebook)

Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Acknowledgments

Readers Group Guide

Introduction

Discussion Questions

Reading Group Enhancers

About Mary Alice Monroe

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