The Rest of Their Lives

The Rest of Their Lives A Summer's Change book in Common Threads in the Life Book 7 This is the last book in the Common Threads series. This saga began for the characters Tom and Joel in 1965 and ends in 2015—a full 50 years. Along the way the Reece family added adoptive children who grew up married and had children. But more important this is the story of how a mixed family of blood inheritance, adoptive members, and those who come into the family and are invited to stay. In this last novel in the series, we see Tom and Joel come full circle from fresh high school students who are shunned by their friends to the historic public wedding they have in the city park. All the marvelous characters that have been introduced and become part of the storyline in the other six books in the series have important parts in this last novel in the series. We see most of them grown up and the newest members attaining age and personality as the family goes on from fifty years head on into the future. Some series never end, but this one comes to a stopping place, and any books that come after with these characters will be spin offs and stand on their own. This last book includes a lengthy excerpt from a spin-off novel. As with any family, there are births and deaths, marriages and divorce, good times and lean times, and readers will witness it all. But there is more to come...