Audio Book Description:
Set against a vivid backdrop, THE LAST SUMMER is the enchanting, heartrending story of a beach-community friendship triangle among three youngadults for whom summer and thisplace have meant everything. Sisters Riley and Alice, now in their twenties, have been returning to their parents` modestbeach house every summer for their entire lives. Petite, tenacious Riley is a tomboy anda lifeguard, always ready for a midnight swim, a gale-forcesail, or a barefoot sprint downthe beach. Beautiful Alice is lithe, gentle,a reader and a thinker, and worshipful of her older sister. And every summeras they grew, in the big house that overshadowed their humble one, there was Paul, a friend as important to both girls as the place itself, who has nowfinally returned to the island after three years away. But his return marks a season of tremendous change, and when a simmering attraction, a seriousillness, and a deep secret collide, the three friends are launched into an unfamiliar adult world.