Blue Sky Hills

A Month of Summer is the first book in the Blue Sky Hills by Lisa Wingate. In a Month of Summer, the author introduces the readers to Rebecca Macklin, a lady who has spent 30 years believing that her father had abandoned her together with her mother so that he could start a new life. Rebecca has held this bitterness for such a long time that she does not see how this bitterness has poisoned her relationship and has also cut her for so many years from her father’s love. The book begins as his father is fighting with Alzheimer’s disease, while her step mother Hannah-Beth has just experienced a massive stroke. Rebecca reluctantly boards a plane heading to Dallas. She leaves behind her 9-year-old daughter and her struggling marriage so that she could spend several days taking care of Teddy her stepbrother and his father as well.