Book Three of the acclaimed Berryfield Series, The Last of The Summer Light by Mike Dart returns to the very beginning of Tyler Glass's story - long before Berryfield, before healing, and before he ever believed he deserved to be loved.
At eight years old, Tyler stood in the warm waters of an Oklahoma creek while the women of Redbird Ridge shouted Hallelujah beneath the summer sun. Wrapped in the arms of his beloved Nanny Mae, he believed the world was still a place where a boy could belong.
Two months later, everything was taken from him.
Passed through foster homes, shelters, and the cold machinery of a system that never learned his story, Tyler grows up surviving the only way he can - by forgetting. Forgetting the valley. Forgetting the language. Forgetting the people who once loved him enough to call him home.
But some memories refuse to stay buried.
As Tyler moves through the shadows of Tulsa carrying the weight of abandonment, exploitation, and loneliness, fragments of his past begin returning like light breaking through storm clouds - a quilt, a creek, a woman dancing in the red mud, and a voice reminding him that he was once marked for good things.
Haunting, emotional, and deeply human, The Last of The Summer Light reveals the lost years that shaped one of the Berryfield saga's most beloved characters. It is a story about survival, identity, memory, and the painful search for belonging in a world that too often forgets its children.
Some children survive by forgetting.
Others survive by remembering.