Last Wish of Summer

Young Adult, General Fiction

By Phillip Overton

Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing

ABOUT Phillip Overton

Phillip Overton
Phillip Overton is the author of three novels, Last Wish of Summer, A Walk Before Sunrise and The Long Way Home. A writer with the ability to create extraordinary tales from the ashes of ordinary circumstance, his works have been compared to Nicholas Sparks and William P Young, author of t More...

Description

As the sun prepares to rise on the last day of summer, three friends find themselves totally unprepared for the events that are about to take place around them. For Tanya it is a chance to find peace three years after losing her parents in an auto accident. Deciding she simply can’t continue blaming God for her loss, she places a heartfelt poem in a bottle and throws it into the sea on the eve of her birthday, granting her birthday wish to whoever finds it.

Early the next morning, her best friend Anton and his buddy Johnno find the bottle washed up on the shore and set about putting it to the test. When Johnno falls for the new waitress at the café where Tanya works, it stirs up feelings of jealousy in Tanya. Surely Johnno couldn’t be the man that God had in mind for her? Suddenly, strange wishes are beginning to come true, but is it all a coincidence? Or is God about to change people’s lives for the better?

Welcome to Kings Beach, where the forecast for the last day of summer promises to be hot, hot, hot, with a definite change in the air.

Phillip Overton grew up on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia, and currently resides in Caloundra on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. He is writing his fourth novel, set between Alaska and Australia at the height of the Gold Rush era.

The content and style of the story remind me somewhat of the writings of Nicholas Sparks.  I hope to see more works by Phillip Overton in the near future. ~ Reader Views