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Nia is broke, stressed, and one day away from losing everything. An unexpected opportunity lands in her inbox, promising easy money... Will a simple job become more than Nia bargained for?

Angela has spent years being the perfect pastor's wife, always smiling and supporting her husband. But as her carefully controlled world starts to fall apart, she's forced to face the truth she's been avoiding for far too long. With her life unraveling, she must make choices that could change everything-choices that could either break her or finally set her free.

Maeve Malone came to America to write beautiful things. She writes captions for a car dealership.

Twenty-two and fresh out of college, Maeve has landed in Chicago on a work visa attached to her job like a tin can on a string — in a flat she chose from a photograph, three streets from a baseball stadium nobody warned her about. Her office has a gong. Her roommate has strong opinions about ketchup. Her boss deletes her semicolons and says nobody reads, Maeve, they scroll.

And her mother, three and a half thousand miles away in a village with one pub and one traffic light, somehow already knows what she wore to Mass.

So Maeve keeps a notebook. Partly to stay sane. Partly as a field study of a warm, loud, baffling people who say things like "a flag, but it winks" and mean them entirely. Somebody ought to be documenting this.

There's also a man at the corner table of the coffee shop who reads Steinbeck and holds a book like it's owed tenderness. They have exchanged twenty-seven words. She's counting.

Any news? No news, Mam. No news at all.

Summer was supposed to last forever.

For Gina, childhood is measured in bike rides, backyard adventures, neighborhood pools, prank calls, scraped knees, fireflies, and the friends who could be summoned simply by shouting their names across the yard.

Then Courtney arrives for her annual summer visit, and Anye—visiting from Ireland—joins them. Suddenly, the days stretch wide open before the three girls, filled with ridiculous schemes, small disasters, unexpected adventures, and the kind of magic that only seems possible when you’re young enough to believe summer will never end.

But time is moving even when they aren’t paying attention.

Courtney and Anye will eventually have to go home. Childhood is already beginning to shift beneath their feet. And Gina doesn’t yet understand that some summers become important only after they’re gone.

The Summer of Chasing Rainbows is a warm, funny, nostalgic coming-of-age story about friendship, family, growing up, and the ordinary moments that somehow become the ones we spend the rest of our lives trying to find again.

Thomas Fairfax is sixteen, three years younger than anyone else in the pre-veterinary program at New Pony University, and the only unicorn in his class who won't light his horn. His parents gave him the rule and never gave him the reason. Our family doesn't use magic. That's just how it is.

The rule is easy enough to keep when he's outworking everyone anyway — including Toby Collins, a second-year with a surname on a hospital wing and a father who golfs with the dean. Their rivalry is the best thing in Thomas's life. It's certainly the only thing he's any good at.

Then a ship goes down in March, and Thomas is a seventeen-year-old orphan with a tween sister, a lease he can't legally hold, and a hearing date. Everything his parents built comes down to what he can carry.

He can carry more than they thought. That's the problem.

Because there's a course in the catalog that mends a fractured bone in twelve minutes, and the only thing standing between Thomas and it is a rule from two ponies who aren't here to explain themselves.