Loving Summer

"I love the romance, but there are bigger issues the author tackles in this book that is appropriate for older teens and young adults and felt realistic." - Constance DESCRIPTION "When I think of my summers spent at Aunt Sookie's Malibu "pad" as she called it, I think about first kisses, first love, and first heartbreak. I think about my friendship with Rachel Donovan and her brothers Nathaniel (Nat) and Drew. I think of all the sunsets, dawns, and first attempts. And then there was this summer, the summer I grew up, in more ways than one, and everyone noticed, especially the boys, especially Nat." – Summer Jones Summer has always looked forward to spending her summers at her Aunt's beach house with the Donovans. To her, summers at Aunt Sookie's beach house was magical, especially getting to spend time with the Donovans - her best friend Rachel and Rachel's brothers Nathaniel, and Drew. Here at Aunt Sookie's beach house, they can be anyone and anything they dreamed. For Summer, she had always wished to become as pretty as Rachel and for her brothers to think of her as more than Rachel's friend. For Nat and Drew, summers at Aunt Sookie's beach house meant fun and escape, a place where they go to with their mom and sister for the summer, escaped to the beach, away from city life. They never thought this summer would be different. They never thought things would change as much as they did, that there would be a second chance for everything good and bad, including love and romance...and it all began with them falling for and loving Summer. *A new adult contemporary romance with an edge. Book 1 is suitable for older teens, young adults, and college age. Loving Summer is a sweet romance that contains social issues such as coming of age, mental illness, divorce, depression, death, and family.

Two hot brothers, one steady and secured, groomed to take over their family's billion dollar enterprise. The other, a rising football star whose body is well-known to women of all ages in print and in person. Both in love with the same woman, whom they can't have - Summer Jones, their sister's best friend since childhood, and the girl they promised to protect. She's never been so lost in her life, following the tragedy that rocked her steady and secured life. Always the perfect girl, the good girl who does everything to take care of everyone else, she's now the one who's fallen too far. Not Drew, not Nat, and not even Rachel. She knows she has to choose and make a decision. She knows she has to do the right thing, but as she decides with her mind, her heart rebels. Her desire for both Donovan brothers has grown insatiable and an addiction so much so that lines are blurred and nothing is clear. Just when everything seems bleak and hopeless, comes a revelation so deep, that what seems far from perfect becomes perfect in what turns out to be the Donovan's most perfect summer.

"I love the romance, but there are bigger issues the author tackles in this book that is appropriate for older teens and young adults and felt realistic." - Constance Two hot brothers, one steady and secured, groomed to take over their family's billion dollar enterprise. The other, a rising football star whose body is well-known to women of all ages in print and in person. Both in love with the same woman, whom they can't have - Summer Jones, their sister's best friend since childhood, and the girl they promised to protect. She's never been so lost in her life, following the tragedy that rocked her steady and secured life. Always the perfect girl, the good girl who does everything to take care of everyone else, she's now the one who's fallen too far. Not Drew, not Nat, and not even Rachel. She knows she has to choose and make a decision. She knows she has to do the right thing, but as she decides with her mind, her heart rebels. Her desire for both Donovan brothers has grown insatiable and an addiction so much so that lines are blurred and nothing is clear. Just when everything seems bleak and hopeless, comes a revelation so deep, that what seems far from perfect becomes perfect in what turns out to be the Donovan's most perfect summer.

"The perfect summer read" - Michelle, Book Briefs Reviews "Not only did it keep me in suspense of what was happening, but the character's responses were believable. Gow really impressed me with this book and I am looking forward to reading her other books." - YA Fiction Book Reviews "I love the romance, but there are bigger issues the author tackles in this book that is appropriate for older teens and young adults and felt realistic." - Constance Summer Jones thought she lost Nat Donovan, the boy she had always had a crush on since she could remember, when he went off on a mission to find his father, the founder and CEO of Donovan Dynamics, the billion dollar security and intelligence corporation who is now protecting her from the stalker who has attempted to kill her twice. He had always been her rock, had always been there for her, but now Nat has disappeared. According to Donovan Dynamics, it was for good. Could Summer continue on? Could Nat's playboy one-night stand legend brother Drew Donovan live up to Nat's legacy as the family's perfect son, as the one who could eventually run Donovan Dynamics? With Nat gone, could he finally get Summer to commit to him with all her heart and soul? All the secrets, all the heartaches, come out in Lasting Summer as the Donovans and Summer learn to deal with the truth about Nat, Drew, and Summer that will test each others' love to each other and to family. THE LOVING SUMMER SERIES IN ORDER - Now Available and Complete! Loving Summer - for older teens, young adults and adults Falling for Summer - New Adult/Contemporary Romance Perfect Summer - New Adult/Contemporary Romantic Suspense Secrets of the Fall - New Adult/Contemporary Romantic Suspense Lasting Summer - New Adult/Contemporary Romantic Suspense Free Fall Series - 10 Years Later - Standalone Series or can be Read in Order Summer's Landing - The Wedding

Standalone New Novel from ALA Award-winning International Bestselling Author and TV Host Kailin Gow... From the beloved series, Loving Summer, which is in pre-production as a Feature Film, set to release in 2018, comes... Summer's Landing Summer's Landing is a new series about a more mature Summer Jones who is now 28 and working as a surgeon in Los Angeles. She was engaged to her long-time love, but now life is about to change with her fiance hovering between life and death. As a surgeon, she deals with life and death decisions everyday, but when tragedy hits too close to home, Summer faces the biggest decision in her life, one she will fall upon at a place called Summer's Landing. I Can. Not. Believe. It. Another tragedy. Another death. Now the man I am set to marry...the man I want to marry is hovering between life and death. We've just found his missing brother who had been under a different identity, a different life all this time. He's back in our lives...my fiance's smart, genius, and now hotter than ever older brother, who happens to be my first love since childhood...just to now have my fiance close to death. How ironic? It's like the stars do not want us together. It's like we will never be together...my fiance and I. I don't know what to do...I don't know if I can do anything. But it's as if somehow fate has another mind of its own. I won't know until all this plays out. My entire life has been a roller coaster, and now it seems it will come to a stop. I just need to know how to land. He's there to help me...And I'm there too. Somehow the answers are there...at Summer's Landing.

The Summer of 1988... Three best friends enjoying the last days of summer before college...Nadine Winters, Meecham James, and her little sister Susie "Sookie" James would make a pact that would affect them and their next generation for the rest of their lives. Through love, lost, tragedy, and growing up; they will remain true to their pact even if it kills them... Featuring Original Songs and Lyrics to the Beat of 1980s Music and the Tradition of Broadway Musicals... The Summer Pact....a Loving Summer Spin-Off Prequel Series

The Complete 3-Book Set of the Free Fall Series in Loving Summer:FREE FALL BOOK 1Although Summer has made her choice, the danger is far from over. In order to protect everyone he loves, Nat must continue living with his new identity for however long it takes, even if that means several years later.FREE FALL BOOK 2The Dragon, one of the most ruthless and evasive lord of a powerful crime ring, has taken the only thing or the only person who has kept him sane and in control for the last ten years...FREE FALL BOOK 3In the concluding book to the Free Fall Series, told mostly in Nat Donovan's point of view, one of the Donovans is hanging to life by a thread while another is losing his mind.A truth about Summer is discovered that may change everything.