The Summer Garden: A Love Story

The Magnificent Conclusion to the Timeless Epic Saga

Through years of war and devastation, Tatiana and Alexander suffered the worst the twentieth century had to offer. Miraculously reunited in America, they now have a beautiful son, Anthony, the gift of a love strong enough to survive the most terrible upheavals. Though they are still young, the ordeals they endured have changed them—and after living apart in a world laid waste, they must now find a way to live together in postwar America.

With the Cold War rising, dark forces at work in their adopted country threaten their lives, their family, and their hard-won peace. To regain the happiness they once knew, to wash away the lingering pain of the past, two lovers grown distant must somehow forge a new life . . .or watch the ghosts of their yesterdays destroy their firstborn son.

The Summer Garden . . . their odyssey is just beginning.

The Magnificent Conclusion to the Timeless Epic Saga

Through years of war and devastation, Tatiana and Alexander suffered the worst the twentieth century had to offer. Miraculously reunited in America, they now have a beautiful son, Anthony, the gift of a love strong enough to survive the most terrible upheavals. Though they are still young, the ordeals they endured have changed them—and after living apart in a world laid waste, they must now find a way to live together in postwar America.

With the Cold War rising, dark forces at work in their adopted country threaten their lives, their family, and their hard-won peace. To regain the happiness they once knew, to wash away the lingering pain of the past, two lovers grown distant must somehow forge a new life . . .or watch the ghosts of their yesterdays destroy their firstborn son.

The Summer Garden . . . their odyssey is just beginning.

“Paullina Simons knows how to keep the reader turning the pages.” - Courier Mail (Australia)

“Well worth reading. - The Southland Times (New Zealand)

“BREATHTAKING! The final instalment in the lives of Tatiana Metanova and Alexander Barrington honestly takes the breath away. Paullina Simons is an extraordinary storyteller and the book is full to overflowing as Tatiana and Alexander, both broken from what they’ve seen and lived through, try to rebuild their lives and protect their son as he grows up to become a soldier just like his dad and heads off to fight in Vietnam.” - The Evening Standard (Palmerston North, New Zealand)

“Paullina Simon’s voice is engaging enough and there is much information in the broad sweep of the narrative, which covers the blockade of Leningrad, the Vietnam War and the saga of a Russian immigrant family that eventually finds happiness in the US of A.” - Melbourne Age

“Lush in emotion and rich in detail . . . a complex, diverse, multifaceted story.” - Denver Post

“An impressive and enviable first novel, Tully proves to be one of those page-turners. There is a reader involvement that almost becomes a compulsion.” - Richmond Times-Dispatch (on TULLY)