Summer Winds
Twelve-year-old Renee Good travels from her home in Makinen, Minnesota, a farming community 100 miles south of the Canadian border, to visit her long-time friend, Holly Spur in Rutledge, Minnesota, a small town with the population of 350, in the summer of 1963. The Spur family has moved from Makinen to run a restaurant in Rutledge. Though the town is small, it sits on the main thoroughfare to Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota’s Twin Cities. To Renee, Rutledge is every bit as sophisticated as the large cities. That Fourth of July weekend she meets the Thompson sisters, Judy, Kathy and Shannon, who are already friends with Holly, and befriends Kathy and Shannon. Too, she is elated that she gets to see the first love of her life, Holly’s brother Sam. She is full of anticipation at the thought, as are the other girls because the weekend will be full of events, a rodeo, parade, and a carnival is coming to town. What they don’t know is that evil is already firmly entrenched within the city. Their first realization comes when eleven-year-old Shannon Thompson disappears in the early evening of the Fourth of July, and is found the morning of the fifth, murdered and tossed into a ditch, displayed so all who pass can see what has happened to her. Further trauma assaults by way of molestation when Renee and Holly are forced to go to the carnival with Holly’s parents, who have been invited by the pastor to be his guests there. The girls are befriended by the Spur’s elderly landlady, a woman of 111 years of age, and whom the locals call a “witch.” She guides them through their traumas and comes to do battle with the evil that lurks behind a shelter of respectability. Things come to a head as an F4 tornado rips through the town on July 6, leaving most without homes, and killing some.
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