The Eighth Summer

(Hardback)

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The Eighth Summer

Set in Nantucket we follows seven best friends as they gather to bury one of their own. Following seven years of tradition, these friends share a week every August at two of the friends (Tommy and Amys) Nantucket beach house. On this, the 8th Summer, Mark, one of their own, is tragically killed in a motorcycle accident days before there scheduled yearly reunion. It has left each of the seven stunned, and grief-stricken. As they gather together to bond and heal from the loss of their brother, Marks death has brought to surface many truths untold within this intimate circle of friends.

So together for the eight summer they desperately reach out for one another for comfort only to suddenly see one another in a different light all together. With one life gone, the other friends realize the frailty of life itself and the true meaning of friendship is defined by their ability to accept what they love and what they have discovered about the closest people to them. Eachother.

Author Bio

Lisa Mercado-Fernandez is the author of The Shoebox and now The Eighth Summer, her second novel. Born in The Bronx New York, Lisa worked as a teacher and later married and moved to Bucks County, PA where she currently lives with her husband and family including her two dogs, Rudy and Wally.