"A rare story of summer that feels like the summer?like dreamy intense
passions rising and arcing and then spinning away; like beauty underlaid
with a tinge of sadness because it is ephemeral."
?--New York Times
Beloved author Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn) returns with this
long-anticipated new novel, a beautifully bittersweet tale of passion,
enchantment, and the nature of fate.
It was a typically unpleasant Puget Sound winter before the arrival of
Lioness Lazos. An enigmatic young waitress with strange abilities, when
the lovely Lioness comes to Gardner Island even the weather takes
notice. And as an impossibly beautiful spring leads into a perfect
summer, Lioness is drawn to a complicated family. She is taken in by two
disenchanted lovers?dynamic Joanna Delvecchio and scholarly Abe Aronson
? visited by Joanna's previously unlucky-in-love daughter, Lily. With
Lioness in their lives, they are suddenly compelled to explore their
deepest dreams and desires.
Lioness grows more captivating as the days grow longer. Her new family
thrives, even as they may be growing apart. But lingering in Lioness's
past is a dark secret ? and even summer days must pass.
