Portrayer Jonna Leigh Stack First Appearance September 27, 1984 Episode #044 Last appearance January 14, 1985 Episode #119 Departure Murdered by the Carnation Killer Occupation Museum worker Family Gina Demott (sister) Brandon Demott (nephew) Romances Warren Lockridge Episode count 33

Summer Blake was a fictional character that appeared on Santa Barbara from September 1984 to January 1985. She was portrayed by actress Jonna Leigh Stack.

Summer was Gina Demott's younger sister. Their parents died when Summer was barely a teenager, forcing Gina to fight to keep her from being taken away to a foster home. As a result, the two sisters were always very close. In 1989, however, long after Summer's death, this history was rewritten when Gina's mother, Phyllis Blake, turned up in town.

Arrival in Santa Barbara
Summer's primary reason for coming to Santa Barbara was to take care of Gina, who had recently become a widow and was staying in the Presidential Suite of the Capwell Hotel. On her first day in town, Summer met lifeguard Warren Lockridge at the beach bar when he tried to help her select a jukebox song. He offered to buy her a drink, but she was clearly not interested in drinking with a stranger. The two eventually grew closer, however, after Warren burned his hand and Summer helped to bandage it up. Having landed a job at the museum, she then got help from him in finding an apartment.

Warren and Summer
Things got complicated after Warren accidentally dropped a box of ancient coins in Summer's presence. He swore her to secrecy and got extremely paranoid about her friendship with Kelly Capwell. Although Summer was angry about Warren's behavior, they soon made up and he helped her move out of the Presidential Suite. Unfortunately, he dropped one of the coins there and it was found by a bellhop. Although Summer tried to cover by suggesting it belonged to the previous guest, the bellhop mentioned Warren's name and a suspicious Kelly held onto the coin. Warren was very upset when Summer told him the news. She returned a coin to him on Kelly's behalf, but it turned out to be a fake. Believing that the coin was more important to him than their friendship, Summer decided to stay away from Warren. But when Kelly asked Summer to act as a go-between and give Warren a message about the coin, she refused to be put in the middle and gave Warren another chance. One night, the two got stuck in an elevator and he finally confided to her that he had done something awful to protect his dad (i.e. stealing the Capwell coins). Following this confession, Warren and Summer's relationship only deepened.

Nevertheless, Summer resisted Warren's advances several times. The first time occured when he gave her a private scuba lesson and promptly kissed her. Then, he surprised her with a romantic picnic at the museum and made another move, but this only caused her to run away and recall her terrible experience of molestation from years before. Although she was unable to confide in Warren about this, he didn't push and was very understanding. A short while later, he surprised her by hiring waiters to serve them an extravagant meal in the elevator of the Capwell Hotel. Although Warren and Summer got passionate, she was again reminded of the molestation and fled from the hotel. Eventually, Summer revealed to a shocked Gina that she had been raped by Hank Judson, Gina's ex-boyfriend.

Death
When Summer disappeared, Warren checked at the museum and was told she had left no forwarding address. Upset, he turned to Gina for answers. She eventually told him the truth: Summer was with a therapist in Los Angeles to deal with her rape. A few weeks later, Mason Capwell got Summer back in town to question her about Warren's coins. She was bent on protecting Warren, however, and refused to incriminate him. Furthermore, she was horrified to spot a picture of a waitress who had recently been murdered by the Carnation Killer (a.k.a. Peter Flint). Warren learned that Summer was back in town and although it was too soon for her to be with him, he promised to wait. Later, at the State Street Bar, Summer got into an argument with Kelly by asking her not to incriminate Warren. After Kelly left the bar, a deranged Peter approached Summer on the pretext that Warren had been in an accident. Summer agreed to let Peter drive her to the hospital and was horrified when he gave her a white carnation. Not long after this, a distraught Warren found Summer's dead body in an abandoned warehouse. She had been raped and killed.

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