Summer Blackmore

**Summer Blackmore** is a side character in both the first and second season as well as mentioned throughout the series. She is the mother of both Sam Blackmore and Maya Foster.

## Biographical Information

### Age

* 50 (Season 1)
* 52 (Season 2)

### Occupation

* Housewife
* Cooking show host

## Relationships

### Familial

* Mason Blackmore (son)
* Sam Blackmore (son)
* Maya Foster (daughter)
* Oliver Blackmore (nephew)

## Biography

### Early life

Summer was the spoiled child of a set of divorced parents; her father was a well known doctor and her mother was a nurse. The two never got along from what Summer could remember. Since she could talk, they spent most of their time arguing or giving each other the silent treatment. This was most of her childhood as she listened to her parents argue back and forth. It wasn't until she was in middle school that her parents sat her down to explain they were getting a divorce. Truth be told, it wasn't a surprise to her and she let out a breath of relief.

During the signing phase and her mother packing up, she was told that her father hadn't always been like this. There was a point where he was a romantic who cared deeply about her. They shared their deepest secrets and it was like a love story. Somewhere along the way though, it had stopped. He had gotten lazy. He had focused more on work then he did on her. It wasn't until years after her mother moved out and had drank too much wine that she still loved him; Summer had been an attempt to save their failing marriage without success. This would be a memory that Summer would wish she could forget but never could.

Years later during an awards ceremony for her father, she had met Mark Blackmore. An interesting man that she swore wasn't like any other man she had met which unbeknownst to her wasn't true. Mark had ended up being a lot like the father she had always known which was a man so dived into work that he failed to see anything else. Either way, the two hit it up and ended up going on a date. When Mark explained his expectations, she was confident that she could follow them. To which she did when they had their first son and the years that followed until they finally agreed upon their second child.

She was a diligent wife who stayed at home to cook and clean. Took care of their youngest son and when she found out she was pregnant with twins; both a boy and a girl, she was ecstatic. Secretly, she had wanted a daughter who she could dress up and take around the house. She couldn't wait for her husband to come home so she called him expecting the same excitement but there wasn't. He informed her they would talk about it once he got home. The "conversation" hadn't been much of a conversation but more so the statement that once they had the twins, they would give up the girl. He had agreed to one more child not two and that was final. Anything else was not negotiable to his perfect world with his perfect plans.

Summer had struggled with this more than she wanted to admit. Smiling had never been a frequent thing for her to begin with other than when she had found out about the twins. There was no arguing her husbands choice which was something she knew. The coming months meant doing her best to prepare for what was expected of her when she gave birth. When the time came and she gave birth to two healthy children, she watched as her daughter was taken away. Unable to do anything through the pain and sweat as the papers were finished. The last good faith of signing it over in their decision was allowing Summer to name her. Watching her Maya get taken away had made her cry but her husband seemed unfazed.

The following years, she resumed being the dutiful housewife. A little bit of resentment formed in the very pit of her though towards her youngest son. A feeling that she would never try to sort out in her time. Of course she had been the fullest version of herself towards Sam as she had been with Mason but that wasn't saying anything good. For the most part, the next few years went by in a blur. It seemed mechanical as she raised her two sons. She kept a little binder of the few things she could of her daughter that she often revisited at times. In it she would even include collages of things she'd have gotten for her.

Once Sam had entered high school, she was becoming increasingly lost on her role. Since she married Mark, she had been dutiful housewife and the mother towards their kids. Her entire job was to take care of them every day but they were needing care less and less. Slowly they were drifting out of her grasp but she kept doing everything she could towards them. This became her life until the day that Sam Blackmore disappeared; suddenly he was just gone. He never came home like he was supposed to and flyers went out everywhere. Pretty soon people were asking her for interviews. She was going on talk shows as the attention was shown on her. Summer had been casted the star role of the grieving mother who just wanted her son home.

This became something that she milked for as much as she could whereas her husband had put away all his pictures. It was Summer who put them back in place when news vans would show back up to ask her how she was handling. Sure enough though, the case would go unsolved as people started to forget about the missing Blackmore son. The fame dwindled down but people had loved her so much that she had been offered a show. It was to be a cooking show dedicated to her missing son where they would allow temporary runs of Sam and she would be able to freely talk about him as well as whatever else she wanted to while she cooked. This meant painting a bright smile on her face each moment the TV was on her.

The show only ran for a few months before it got cancelled due to budgeting details. Summer Blackmore faded back into the background of the world where her only job left over was being a mother to a son who was gone away to college and drinking with the mayor's wife on the weekend like they usually did. If smiles had been rare before for her in the house, they were non existent other than when her husband had required of it.

### Season 1

Once her world was turned back to how it was, life seemed to have other things in order. Suddenly Sam had been found albeit it was at the cost of her son. That was something to be worried about later as there were plenty of interviews to attend and news casters to stand in front of. She decided to parade her son around like he was a show animal for her to get all the attention with.

### Season 2

The trial had left her at conflicting emotions because she knew Mason's downfall would negatively affect her husbands mood but it was quick that her care was out the window. She was adamant on attending the trial with Sam and even more so on attending every interview. Attending every gathering of news reporters who stood on the steps of the courthouse with her hands firmly on her sons shoulders.

She accurately played the roll of more than happy mother to have her son back. The role of loving mother even helped in not testifying against Mason. No one wanted to put her through that kind of trauma after all. Throughout the season, she is seen as guilt tripping and manipulative whenever she is talking to her son but drinks up the limelight when others are around whether it be his friends or the paparazzi.

Due to this, she regained a spot on her show once again which was canceled after another year. Returning to be a house wife so diligently as he came by every summer. Her world was turned upside down though when she saw her daughter enter with him. Knowing she couldn't announce herself however until Maya walked in on her with the scrapbook.

## Personality

Summer was a very manipulative person, especially when it came to guilt tripping others. She was always willing to take whatever avenue that made her life more exciting. Most people struggled to resist her charisma albeit until her son lost it, he could outshine her. She loves living the high life and enjoying things that fit that kind of life style.

Being able to drink fancy wines and eat fancy foods is only possible due to her husband which is why she is so diligent in her position as housewife. Due to her parents marriage, she believes that a marriage that starts off with a high abundance of love is destined for heartbreak and mistakes that can't be undone. So she settled for a simpler love that was steady.