Summer of Us
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A 1960s Love Story**
In the deep South during the summer of 1960, love was a dangerous thing-especially when it crossed the color line.
Seventeen-year-old Jimmy Reed keeps his head down. A quiet, talented mechanic with big dreams and little room to chase them, he knows the world doesn't offer second chances to boys like him. Sixteen-year-old Lily Monroe is the sheriff's daughter-privileged, protected, and expected to follow the rules written for girls like her.
They meet by accident.
They fall in love by choice.
What begins with stolen glances and whispered conversations in the library blossoms into something daring, defiant-and forbidden. As rumors spark into threats and secrets threaten to explode, Jimmy and Lily must decide: stay safe in the world they were born into, or risk everything for the chance to create a future of their own.
Set against the backdrop of the segregated South, Summer of Us is a poignant, heart-wrenching romance about courage, resistance, and the kind of love that refuses to be silenced.
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