Summer's Romance Series

When 25 year old Summer meets Clayton Solomon, she can't believe such a handsome, rich man 50 years old wants her.  Then she learns his secret fetish. A furry, he enjoys dressing up to make love in a lion costume. Summer resists. The romance she craves invites enough criticism because of her younger age.  Clayton's passion overwhelms her hesitation. She can't control her love for Clayton. Summer Watson seems to Have It All. 25-years-old, beautiful, a rising local TV reporter, she attends a birthday party around a backyard swimming pool for one of the wealthiest self-made CEOs in St. Louis -- as his son's date. She doesn't intend to fall in love with his 50-year-old father.  Clayton Solomon doesn't intend to steal the woman his son loves so madly. Summer still nurses the emotional scars from her only serious previous relationship. Clayton counts three ex-wives. Summer's mother never learns to say no to booze, noninjectable drugs, or men. Clayton fathers his first daughter years before Summer's birth. Summer demands fidelity. Clayton can't stop himself from cheating -- according to all 3 ex-wives. And his own children. Summer's family thinks Clayton too old for her. Clayton's family thinks Summer too young for him -- except his son, who simply seethes with jealous. Summer's friends call Clayton a pervert. His friends believe Summer a golddigger. And Clayton Solomon has a secret. A furry, he enjoys sex fantasies as a lion.  Can they make their love work? Despite the fear of having their furry sexual practices 'outed?' Despite opposition from their family and friends? Can Summer even keep the peace long enough for everyone to celebrate Father's Day together, so Clayton can spend it with his children and grandchildren? If you want to root for two lovers determined to make a life together despite their problems, give it a try.  

Summer's enemies don't rest.  Clayton's second ex-wife steals the loyalty of Clayton's closest employee. Franci, a furry Clayton met online, flies in from Nashville. Clayton's friends look down on Summer. And now Clayton hints he wants to make her wife number 4. But how can she trust him? Especially with the hot, just out of college Filipino webmaster he hired to start up his online business? At the end of Lion Heart, Summer succeeds in getting both families together to celebrate Father's Day, so Clayton can spend it with his children and grandchildren. That just begins her struggle with the world -- and both their families --  to win acceptance for loving a man twice her age. And just begins Clayton's struggle to get Summer to accept both his love and his kinky furry sexual desires. Summer learns to enjoy playing Clayton's 'lioness' sometimes, and Clayton realizes his greatest sexual satisfaction comes from making love to the woman he adores -- even without fur suits. Summer must also struggle with the fear -- based on his behavior during his three marriages -- he cheats on her.  She gives him an ultimatum. One foul, out for life. He swears he won't, but can Summer believe him?  Clayton's family, excluding Clayton's jealous second ex-wife, adores Summer -- but they all want her to marry Clayton's son, Calwood. Summer's best friend and roommate, calls Clayton a dangerous pervert. Summer still struggles to accept a man loving her. Especially a rich, successful man such as Clayton.  Clayton keeps asking Summer to marry him, but she fears taking her place as Wife Number 4 will lead to a slot as Ex-Wife Number 4. Clayton's vindictive second ex-wife plays a "home video" that could destroy both Clayton and Summer personally and professionally . . . if she carries out her threat to upload it to YouTube. And what's in the package Clayton hides from Summer? Ana, the hot Filipino who works with him everyday in his new home business, knows. With so much against them, the world outside and their own inner demons, can Summer and Clayton's love triumph?   

Summer gets her wish. She marries Clayton. Can they live happily ever after?  Hardly any of their friends and family attend the ceremony. They enjoy their honeymoon in Hawaii despite a disagreement about the continued use of birth control. And soon after Clayton insists on taking an adventure trip to South America. When he returns, Summer hits him with the news. She tests positive for pregnancy.  Can Clayton handle fatherhood again? At 50 years of age? Pregnancy sparks a new fear inside Summer: What if Clayton someday practices his furry fetish with his own child? She doesn't really believe he would commit this sin, but one part of her doubts him, and that drives them apart. Summer's struggle for acceptance continues. Not even marriage protects her from her enemies. Someone hires a beautiful escort to tempt Clayton into bedding her -- and then bragging about it to Summer. Knowing Summer refuses to tolerate any unfaithfulness from Clayton. Summer and Clayton must crash the family Christmas party just so he can spend the holiday with his grandchildren. Declining viewership and advertising revenue, plus professional attacks because of her marriage, threaten Summer's job at Station KPLU. Summer's mother's health continues to slide downhill. Clayton finishes writing his manual on how to become a real estate developer, but Summer must rewrite it. And Ana's cousin lets them know they've barely begun to set up a viable online business. Can Summer cope with all the stress? Will Clayton resist the temptation to bed the gorgeous woman hired to seduce him? How will Summer react when the escort tells her the truth about her husband? Grandma keeps predicting bad luck. And Summer's stomach keeps growing. Clayton resents her suspicions, and now refuses to make love to her. In the hospital, Summer must survive the most critical day of her life.  

How can one heart feel so much grief for a dead husband as well as so much joy for a newborn baby daughter -- and keep pumping?  Summer figures out Cal hired the escort to seduce her husband. At Clayton's funeral, she announces her eternal hatred of Cal. Soon, however, Cal appoints himself her baby daughter Adalia's big brother and father figure substitute -- and won't leave Summer's life. Dawn Blossom continues -- and finishes -- the story of Summer, starting from the end of Cut Cords. Upon Clayton's death, his money goes to his children. Except for Adalia's portion of that, plus Social Security, Summer can't make ends meet. Clayton left her his Internet business, but how can she make that work, without Clayton's expertise in real estate development? Brooke gives Summer and Ardalia temporary shelter in her house, but Summer's enemy tries to get the city of Ladue to drag her out. Summer grieves so much for Clayton, she believes she still makes love to him. Calwood angers his mother, Mercedes, because he refuses to stop loving Summer. He insists she loves him. Much as Summer hates Cal, she cannot keep him from Adalia. He gives the baby all the attention he wishes Clayton gave to him as a child. How can Summer stop Cal from loving her daughter -- his own sister? Or from pestering her? Upon learning Cal's secret, she slugs him in the face. And insists Cal watch the video his mother makes, exposing her deepest secret. Can Summer find true love despite all her problems? Who does she marry in the next to last chapter? And during their honeymoon in a Paris hotel, how does she make love to her new husband?