First published in 1958 and then turned into a film of the same name in 1959 featuring Troy Donahue, Sandra Dee, Dorothy McGuire and Richard Egan, this classic romance is available for the first time in ebook format. Ken and Sylvia met twice at the Summer Place. The first summer they were in their teens. Their intimacy was without love. They'd met too early. The second summer they shouldn't have fallen in love...and did. They were in their thirties-married-each with children. Had they met too late? Ken and Sylvia decided to break two marriages to make the one they wanted together. They almost broke a third that hadn't even started yet. Because Ken's daughter and Sylvia's son met at the Summer Place. They were in their teens. For them, it was neither too early nor too late. This novel is about how marriages are made on earth-and unmade. It is about the price people pay for changing their minds about love.

Ex-cop Diana Parrish, running in terror from a homicidal spouse, stops long enough to testify in Grand Jury against him. Disdaining Witsec, she runs instead into the depths of an Oregon rainforest. There, she stays in a tiny community accessible only by boat, with few amenities, and food grown or brought in by the mail boat. With a new identity, her old off -duty weapon, and the dog mailed to her by her godfather, Quinn moves into a long abandoned house, aft er removing the briars that buried it, with the help of Potsy, who runs the mail boat. It doesnt take long to learn that nearly all the residents, including Potsy, have secrets of their own. Has Diana, now Quinn Summer, fled a snake den in Arizona, to take refuge in nest of alligators in Oregon?

Presents the stories of three couples who prove that opposites do attract as they find love and passion under the roof of a Victorian summerhouse called Rainshadow Lodge.

Difficult themes reflecting the frailty of the human condition, such as suicide, alcoholism, insanity and incest, are explored with rare sensitivity in Bob Kostoff's second novel. Garth Vasoff, a wealthy New York City businessmen, visits Niagara Falls, New York, drops in at a friendly neighborhood tavern and gets hooked by the vivacious owner, Martie McGurk. She is separated from her crazy husband who has abused their pre-teen daughter. The range of characters who frequent McGurk's Tavern become involved in crime, drunk driving, mayhem and suicide. They may seem to be miscreants, but are family with the tavern as their only "home." The stunning conclusion alone makes this novel a must read.