Summerlong

A delightful return engagement by Peter S. Beagle

Synopsis: A Seattle-area couple who have been together many years are enchanted by a young woman who has started waitressing at their favorite restaurant near their semi-rural home. When her living conditions prove inadequate to the Puget Sound winter, they offer her a place to stay in their garage. But the young woman has some secrets in her past which eventually catch up to her.

What I thought: This is a typically lovely Beagle fantasy-fable, but it telegraphs (in my opinion) way too early and way too overtly what's really going on, and that made it less enjoyable for me than it might have been. Nevertheless, it's a good story, with a bittersweet ending.