Dawn Blossom

How can one heart feel so much grief for a dead husband as well as so much joy for a newborn baby daughter -- and keep pumping?

Dawn Blossom concludes Summer's Romance story, starting from the end of Cut Cords.

Summer figures out Cal hired the escort to seduce her husband. At Clayton's funeral, she announces her eternal hatred of Cal. Soon, however, big brother Cal appoints himself her daughter Adalia's father figure substitute -- and won't leave Summer's life.

Upon Clayton's death, his money goes to his children. Except for Adalia's portion of that, plus Social Security, Summer can't make ends meet. Clayton left her his Internet business, but how can she make that work, without Clayton's expertise in real estate development?

Brooke gives Summer and Ardalia temporary shelter in her house, but Summer's enemy tries to get the city of Ladue to drag her out.

Summer grieves so much for Clayton, she believes she still makes love to him.

Calwood angers his mother, Mercedes, because he refuses to stop loving Summer. He insists she loves him.

Much as Summer hates Cal, she cannot keep him from Adalia. He gives the baby all the attention he wishes Clayton gave to him as a child.

How can Summer stop Cal from loving her daughter -- his own sister?

Or from pestering her?

Upon learning Cal's secret, she slugs him in the face.

And insists Cal watch the video his mother makes, exposing her deepest secret.

Can Summer find true love despite all her problems? Who does she marry in the next to last chapter?

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L.A. Zoe grew up in a small, Illinois river town and now lives in a tropical paradise full of palm trees with the loves of Zoe's life, and extended family. Fond of adventure, travel, and white sand beaches, L.A. prefers the "Bollywood" movies of India to modern Hollywood flicks, because they emphasize love stories, complete with singing and dancing. Favorite actor: Shah Rukh Khan.

L.A. celebrates the freedom of the United States, and enjoys residing in a country demographically much younger. L.A. eats lunch every day in a mall crowded with adults working hard to raise their babies, bunches of school children sharing snack time, and college sweethearts holding hands.

Busy establishing and enjoying their lives, building a future for the world. Nobody worries about the future of Social Security or looks forward to retirement.

No one country, race, culture, religion, or ethnic group holds a monopoly on brains, beauty, hard work, or creativity. Success in the future demands all of the above, especially vision and a willingness to break with the past. To take chances and defy the reluctant majority.

Young adults -- whom publishers now call "new adults" -- keep the world fresh, exciting, and progressing toward humanity's destiny.