One
Last Adirondack Summer
By
Heidi Sprouse
Genre:
Contemporary Fiction
What do you do when your brother asks for one last Adirondack
summer?
John Taylor and Tommy Jackman have been best friends since age
eight, the day they made a blood brother pact to stick together through thick
and thin. Every year since, they’ve spent their summers at John’s Adirondack
camp, and gotten together whenever they can during the year.
Their pact will be put to the ultimate test when Tommy asks
John to take him back to the lake to die. Without hesitation, John packs up
Tommy and his beloved dog, Jasper, and drives his blood brother from Colorado
to the Adirondack Mountains of New York.
It is the hardest thing John has ever done.
But the friends give each other a precious gift, the chance to
share their lives one last time before Tommy no longer has a future. They
remember all the firsts they shared: the first drink, the first smoke, the
first night with a girl.
As Tommy’s life winds down, John holds on, blood brother scar
against blood brother scar, until he realizes it’s not their last Adirondack
summer. In this place, where they crossed the bridge from childhood to
adulthood together, Thomas Michael Jackman will always be with him.
Take the journey with John and Tommy as they learn the grim
lesson of how letting go can sometimes be the best way to hold on.
About the Author
Heidi Sprouse lives in upstate NY
in historic Johnstown. She attended college at St. Rose in Albany,
knowing all along her two loves were teaching and English. It took four
years before she landed the teaching job of her dreams, but twenty years later
she is still nurturing little ones in pre-K. She loves the privilege of
watching brand-new little humans as they discover and begin to shape their own
worlds.
Knowing what she wants and going
after it in relentless pursuit is Heidi’s gift. Deciding to become an author
can be downright unnerving, but Heidi bit into the challenge, took off, and
never looked back. Her perseverance proves success is not a matter of luck;
it’s a matter of finding what speaks to your heart, and committing to do that
thing until it makes a difference.
When she isn’t busy teaching or
with her husband, Jim, her son, Patrick, and her canine kids Chuck and Dale,
she’s cooking up her next novel. She dabbles in sweet romances, historical
fiction, and suspense thrillers, depending on what pleases her reader’s eye at
any given moment. Heidi is always in search of the extraordinary in the
ordinary, writing about strong men with old-fashioned values and the women who
pick them up when they fall. She’ll tell anyone it's never too late to chase
after your dreams, no dream is too small or insignificant, and any mountain can
be moved with a proposal and a good plan.
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