His hair was the same color, coal black, as it had always been, though it was longer than he used to wear it, almost touching his shoulders, and wavy. No, that wasn’t the right word – lean was the one she wanted. His biceps bulged with muscle, and his skin was surprisingly tan. His shoulders were wide enough to stretch the knit shirt taut across them. He wore scuffed brown cowboy boots and beat-up jeans and a white cotton T-shirt. The chemistry sparks between the two as soon as he steps off the bus and Rachel sees Johnny for the first time in eleven years: Rachel has agreed to employ him at her family’s hardware store as a condition of his parole. The book opens with Johnny’s release from prison. An extreme bad boy in high school from the other side of the tracks, Rachel sensed a deep intelligence beneath Johnny’s rough façade and knew there was more to this particular student who enjoyed reading and poetry. One Summer features schoolteacher Rachel Grant, now in her mid-thirties, and former student Johnny Harris, five years younger, who has spent the last ten years imprisoned for a murder he didn’t commit.
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