I married the right brother. At least that’s what I tell myself at night, when I stare at the ceiling and listen to the rhythm of the grandfather clock down the hall. It never feels like the mere passage of time, but a countdown towards something inevitable. Bobby Lightly is selfish, irresponsible, and careless. I haven’t seen him since the day I married his brother. He slipped out during the wedding reception without a word. A year later, I heard Bobby was drafted to Korea. He never said goodbye. Never sent a letter. We had all come to terms with the fact that he was probably dead somewhere, either a victim of the war or its aftermath. That is, until in the midst of an unrelenting heatwave, he showed up at the doorstep of the house I lived in with his brother. Everyone thinks I’m cruel. Everyone thinks I should be easy on him. They think I don’t understand him. They all think I hate him. But what no one understands is that it was Bobby who broke my heart. And I think he’s back to do it again.
all sort of emotion!!!!!!!!!!!!!! “If I could press a button and stop loving you, I would,”What tragedy! Wow! That was intense. I thought I knew how this would end, but I was wrong.Swelter is a story of unrequited, forbidden love. I read this every free moment I had. It was intriguing, sexy, well wrtten. I liked it a lot. There’s an unfortunate love triangle-ish situation and the ending is sorrowful, but it was still worth every penny.Lilly is a woman getting married to a man…
Where to start..WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!What a Beautiful Story!!!!!!!!!!!Just finished it and sure enough after dying to read it and did not put it down…and this is a story that pulls you into from the heart..My heart was fill with love for Swelter all the way to the end…Its well writtten,well developed.captivating,well characters that show you love what it is no matter what….Bobby&Lilly and others personage included but theses too are the love….My emotion for this tale was everywhere,the…
Swelter takes place in 1950’s and is told from Lilly Lightly’s point of view. Lilly is an unhappy housewife trying make it through the sweltering summer months of 1957. Life with her childhood sweetheart Rory is nothing like she thought it would be. There’s a friction between the two that the rising summer heat is exacerbating. The return of Rory’s “dead” brother Bobby only makes things worse.On the surface, it would seem that Lilly hates Bobby. He left Rory and Lilly when…