num_pages: 240
description: Beloved author Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn) returns with this long-anticipated new novel a beautifully bittersweet tale of passion enchantment and the nature of fate.It was a typically unpleasant Puget Sound winter before the arrival of Lioness Lazos. An enigmatic young waitress with strange abilities when the lovely Lioness comes to Gardner Island even the weather takes notice. As an impossibly beautiful spring leads into a perfect summer Lioness is drawn to a complicated family. She is taken in by two disenchanted loversdynamic Joanna Delvecchio and scholarly Abe Aronson  visited by Joannas previously unlucky-in-love daughter Lily. With Lioness in their lives they are suddenly compelled to explore their deepest dreams and desires.Lioness grows more captivating as the days grow longer. Her new family thrives even as they may be growing apart. But lingering in Lionesss past is a dark secret  and even summer days must pass. 
language: English
title: Summerlong
publisher: Tachyon Publications