User blog comment:Zathronas/Speculative author: Who is Summer Rose?/@comment-10380701-20140809050503/@comment-96.254.157.84-20140809053553

About your statement, Shadow, that still leaves a period in time where Summer and Cinder could have known each other through teacher-student relationship. Signal, more likely, but still enough time.

As for the way she died, I want to assume that the Schnees have something to do with Summer's death, which is why Cinder and the White Fang are working together: they have a common enemy.