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Summary: It's going to be a blisteringly hot summer and fourteen-year-old Adam has managed to get the family house by the lake all to himself. But shortly before he is due to leave, he bumps into Mary-Lou and he can't help but invite her to come with him. When they had both been younger, her parent's marriage had collapsed. Mary-Lou's reaction had been to jump out of a tree, and she was left with a crushed vertebra and confined to a wheelchair. As Adam and Mary-Lou pick their way through this tangled and unpleasant heritage, they forge a new relationship