title: Autumn and Summer
author:  Danielle Allen 
description: Danielle Allen is a married author, event planner and teacher. She enjoys music, movies, and traveling. Although she has limited singing ability, karaoke with her best friends is one of her favorite pastimes. With degrees in psychology, human services, and marriage and family counseling, Danielle Allen has a unique perspective on life, love and the pursuit of happiness. As an author, she combines an active imagination and life experiences to create stories that are easily relatable and intentionally intriguing. Danielle Allens goal is to give the reader a peek into someone elses life, getting lost in their story, their trials, their triumphs. Her ultimate goal is to create a character or a story that stays with the reader long after the book has been put down.
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  For Ellie Batz, who was impossible to forget, and Cheri Steinkellner, who was
  impossible to ignore
  
  
  ## CHAPTER ONE
  
  
  I don’t consider myself to be precious, necessarily, but give me air-
  conditioning or give me death.
  
  
  Maybe the only thing worse than a midwestern winter is a midwestern summer,
  especially when your AC is broken. We are going on our second straight week of
  record-breaking highs here. This is the universe’s way of showing it has