The Summer We Ran: A Novel by Audrey Ingram Pen to a cookie crumb

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Collins Cartwright does not want to go home

During the sun-drenched summer of 1966

and if she is going to survive

Patience works there

The Summer We Ran: A Novel by Audrey Ingram Pen to a cookie crumbIn the summer of 1996, Tess Murphys mom gave her two rules to abide by: keep quiet and stay out of trouble. Her mother landed a new job as a cook at an affluent Virginia estate and didnt want anything to risk the opportunity, least of all her outspoken teenage daughter. What no one saw coming was Tess falling deeply in love with the boy next door, high society Grant Alexander. Over a few wondrous and heat filled months, Tess and Grants love blooms so