Torrid Summer — Martha Miller

What happens when two people who should never fall in love, fall in love?Jeannie Baker has been left alone too often. One summer, she has an argument with her lover and leaves the safety of her grandmother's home and goes to spend the summer with the first woman who ever abandoned her-her mother. In Florida, a neighbor boy takes her to a bar called Magnolia's, where she gets an education in sex, drag queens, transgender love, and murder.