Summer Blue Author:Floyd Skloot Summer Blue, a story about love at its most exacting, details the journey of a widower and his maturing teenage daughter. Timothy Packard offers his troubled daughter Jill a deal: If she can finish the school year without incident, they will spend the summer together on the familiar beaches of Long Island, Michigan and Oregon. — From the... more » placid Atlantic to the cold rivers of Michigan and on again to the pounding surf of the Pacific, Jill faces her first serious exposure to love, drugs, death, and adult choices. Timothy, meanwhile, reopens to the possibility of romantic intimacy with women. Together, father and daughter try to heal their wounds and, in the process, discover more about each other than they ever imagined.« less