Books with title Summer of Regret

In 1948, a sixteen-year-old girl was brutally murdered along Bugle trail in Lake Johnson, Texas. Seventeen years later, the man convicted of the crime is released thanks to the owner of the local newspaper.This is the story of the summer of 1965, and a young boy named Pete Whiticker, who has moved to Lake Johnson with his parents to live with his grandfather at the beginning of that summer. Pete soon discovers Bugle trail, which runs through the heart of Lake Johnson. A trail filled with wonders including the huge ash tree that a generation of boys have at some point nailed two-by-four boards up to the smallest limbs 80 feet above the ground. The same tree where the body of sixteen-year-old Barbara Connier was found bludgeoned to death seventeen years before. And Pete soon finds himself drawn into a search for the real killer.The Summer of Regret is the first episode of this series of Cliffhanger Stories. Each future story in the series will put the pieces of this puzzle together as Pete and his new friends find their way through the summer of 1965.

This was the summer that would change my life. No more being what everyone expected. No more doing what everyone else wanted. So when Luke came into my life, I decided to keep him a secret. Maybe he as a dead–ringer for notorious Hollywood bad boy Trent Yves. And it was possible that everything he told me was a lie. And yes, I was probably asking for trouble. But all I saw was Luke—sweet, funny, caring—someone who would let me be the real me. But which was the real him?

This was the summer that would change my life. No more being what everyone expected. No more doing what everyone else wanted. So when Luke came into my life, I decided to keep him a secret. Maybe he as a dead–ringer for notorious Hollywood bad boy Trent Yves. And it was possible that everything he told me was a lie. And yes, I was probably asking for trouble. But all I saw was Luke—sweet, funny, caring—someone who would let me be the real me. But which was the real him?

This was the summer that would change my life. No more being what everyone expected. No more doing what everyone else wanted. So when Luke came into my life, I decided to keep him a secret. Maybe he as a dead–ringer for notorious Hollywood bad boy Trent Yves. And it was possible that everything he told me was a lie. And yes, I was probably asking for trouble. But all I saw was Luke—sweet, funny, caring—someone who would let me be the real me. But which was the real him?