The Summer's End (50 page)

Also by Mary Alice Monroe

LOWCOUNTRY SUMMER TRILOGY

The Summer Girls

The Summer Wind

Beach House Memories

The Butterfly's Daughter

Last Light over Carolina

Time Is a River

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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.

Copyright © 2015 by Mary Alice Monroe, Ltd.

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First Gallery Books trade paperback edition May 2015

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Cover design by Laywan Kwan

Photograph of girl by Audrey Amelie Rudolph

Photograph of sky © Shutterstock

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Monroe, Mary Alice.

The summer's end / Mary Alice Monroe.—First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.

 pages ; cm — (The Lowcountry Summer Trilogy)

1. Psychological fiction. 2. Domestic fiction. I. Title.

PS3563.O529S89 2015

813'.54—dc23

2015004729

ISBN 978-1-4767-0902-4

ISBN 978-1-4767-0905-5 (ebook)