The Summer We Fell

The Summer We Fell

Author: Elizabeth O’Roark Listening Length: 9h 11m

He was my boyfriend’s best friend—and the bane of my existence. I wanted to hate Luke Taylor. I did hate him. I just never hated him enough. Now, a decade later, tragedy has brought us back to the place where it all happened—my best times, and my worst. Our lives have changed, but that pull between us is just as str...

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J ust before Danny comes home for winter break, Donna pulls me aside and tells me the pastor is having bypass surgery in January.

She doesn’t want Danny to know because he’s already going through so much, though in truth, I think she’s mostly worried he’ll drop out of school.

He’s mentioned it more than once to both of us—a childish tantrum about being cut from the team that he’s trying to pose as altruism.

She’s going to be covering more of the pastor’s duties at church—pretty much every aspect of the job aside from the Sunday sermon—and she needs me at the house to keep an eye on him when I’m not at my internship.