Author Description

August Griffin has lived with mental illness and Tourette's Syndrome his entire life. For the last five years, he has bounced in and out of the hospital, adding strain to his already precarious living situation with his ailing mother. Life is an uphill battle... that is, until he meets Marnie Robertson in the hospital's psychiatric ward. The two are complete opposites. Where August is shy and timid, she is wild and vivacious. Where he is poor, she comes from a wealthy family. Despite their differences, August and Marnie share, not only their personal struggles, but their love for writing. As the two forge an unlikely bond, the fiction they create tangles with their reality. A Summer Place is a mental health love story that explores a sweet, albeit tumultuous, and sometimes codependent relationship from a nonjudgmental point of view. It's a story about healing old wounds, evolving into your true self, overcoming mental illness, and, above all, finding belonging in that summer place. Warning: A Summer Places contains some dark themes regarding mental illness that some readers might find upsetting. This book contains strong language and explicit sexual content.