Allen, K. K.

The Summer Solstice : Enchanted

The Summer Solstice Enchanted is the first in the Summer Solstice series - a Young Adult Magical Realism / Fantasy Romance novel. Katrina "Kat" Summer has been sheltered and void of much social interaction her entire life. But her world changes drastically when her mother dies unexpectedly and she is forced move in with her grandmother and caretaker. In the picturesque town of Apollo Beach, which dwells on Florida's West Coast, is where Kat's world takes on enchanting new beginnings. Her grandmother, Rose, a whimsical old lady with wild tales of the Ancient Greek gods and goddesses from which their family descends, encourages Kat to understand her heritage. But the more Kat learns the more she realizes how many secrets her mother kept from her growing up. Leading up to her sixteenth birthday, Kat is occupied with enigmatic visions and disturbing dreams with prophecies much too real to ignore. And after a run-in with the boy-next-door, a good looking guy her age named Alec Stone, Kat is more resolved than ever to find out the truth about her family and what it has to do with her future. What Kat finds is a mythology surrounding the Summer Solstice that forever transforms her from the awkward homebody she once was, to the enchanted Katrina Summer.