The Sweet Gum Tree

The Sweet Gum Tree

Sweet tea, corn bread and soup beans; everyday fare for eight-year-old Alix French, the precocious darling of a respected southern family. But nothing was ordinary about the day she met ten-year-old Nick Anderson, a boy from the wrong side of town. Armed with only a tin of bee balm and steely determination, Alix treats the raw evidence of a recent beating that mars his back, an act that changes both their lives forever. Through childhood disasters and teenage woes they cling together as friendship turns to love. The future looks rosy until the fateful night when Frank Anderson, Nickâ€™s abusive father, is shot to death in his filthy trailer.

Suddenly, Nick is gone, leaving Alix alone, confused and pregnant. For the next fifteen years she wrestles with the pain of Nickâ€™s abandonment, a bad marriage, her family and friends. But finally, sheâ€™s starting to get her life back together. Her divorce is almost final, her business is booming, and sheâ€™s content if not happyâ€”until the day she looks up and sees Nick standing across the counter. Heâ€™s back, and heâ€™s not alone. Once again Alix is plunged into turmoil and pain as Nick tries to win her love, something she resists with all her strength. Only one thing might break the protective wall sheâ€™s built around her emotionsâ€”the truth about Frank Andersonâ€™s death. But when that truth comes out and those walls crumble, neither Alix nor Nick is prepared for the emotional explosion that could destroy as well as heal.
Country USA
Author Katherine Allred
Binding Kindle Edition
Edition 2
Format Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages 318
PublicationDate 2017-07-24
ReleaseDate 2017-07-24

Country	USA
Author	Katherine Allred
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	2
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages	318
PublicationDate	2017-07-24
ReleaseDate	2017-07-24

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