Summertime — Christina Cole

Linn Sparks wanted all life had to offer. Fame, fortune, glamour and excitement. She found it as a star of the stage at the Crown Theater in San Francisco. For Ed Ferguson, life was far less complicated. All he wanted was Linnie Mae, but she'd left him standing alone at the altar seven years before when she'd run off to pursue her dreams. Now, Linn Sparks has come home to Brookfield, Kansas. But coming back means facing a lot of unpleasant realities: a strained relationship with a father who never wanted her, a mother whose grasp on sanity is slipping away, and the feelings she still has for the love she left behind. Ed still wants Linnie Mae, but he knows she won't stay. How can he spend the summer being near her and not get his heart broken again? Between them, passions flare in the heat of SUMMERTIME.